#cosmology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cosmology, aggregated by home.social.
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Why These New Quasar Discoveries Challenge Everything We Knew - YouTube
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-25
Stars that get repeatedly shredded by a supermassive black hole and just... keep coming back for more?! Each pass strips them down but they survive to flare again. Cosmic masochists and I am HERE for it 🔥🌟
🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260822015119.htm
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A Stephen Hawking Theory Could Reveal Strange New Objects That Challenge Physics
Pitris via Getty Images Tiny black holes created in the aftermath of violent cosmic collisions could offer unprecedented insight into the quantum structure of space and time, a new theoretical study proposes. What’s more, signals from these “black hole morsels” could potentially be detected by current instruments, scientists reported in the study, which was published in the journal Nuclear Physics B…….Continue reading…. By Andrey Feldman Source: Live […] -
in the #arXiv
Cosmicflows-4 and the Cosmological Consistency of Large-Scale Motions
by Adi Nusser and Brent Tully
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14265v1#Cosmology #Cosmicflows #Cosmography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-24
S301 is whipping around Sgr A* at up to 25,000 km/s, closer and faster than any star we've ever tracked! Every one of these speed demons is a fresh probe of gravity at its most extreme. Absolutely thrilled 🤩🌌
🔗 https://ticotimes.net/2026/08/21/s301-fastest-known-star-milky-way
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-23
A literal time-lapse of a star whipping around Sagittarius A*!! Watching S301 trace its orbit around our galaxy's monster black hole never stops giving me chills 🌌⚫ pure cosmic clockwork caught on camera!
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The cosmological argument explores the origin of the universe, suggesting everything that begins to exist has a cause. Can this explain why we exist?
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-22
A whole NEW category of cosmic object?! This 'black hole star' little red dot could be the missing link showing how supermassive black holes grew so fast in the early universe. JWST keeps breaking my brain in the best way 🤯🔭
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APOD: 2026 August 21 - Time-Lapse of the Star S301 Orbiting the Black Hole in the Center of the Galaxy
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srry i had to
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🌌 The Binary Solar Matrix & Chromatic Wave Nullification
A theoretical framework establishing darkness as a structured state of chromatic phase cancellation and defining the cosmological equilibrium between the Positive and Negative Suns.👤 Author: Gautam Pal | ORCID: 0009-0004-3456-9972
🔗 Links & Archives: https://linktr.ee/GautamPal_K7#K7Theory #Cosmology #BinarySolarMatrix #QuantumPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #OpenScience
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Oh it's nothing to worry about, just that our previously tenuous understanding of the universe is now even more tenuous. "Lamba-cold dark matter" is the current consensus model of cosmology and it is....just...barely....alive. Data from the new Vera Rubin space telescope may kill it for good. And then we're really adrift...
(This article is written for other physicists but should be accessible to people who follow the field casually.)
https://perimeterinstitute.ca/news/dynamical-dark-energy-and-week-broke-cosmology
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JWST’s Little Red Dots Are Even Stranger Than Predicted - YouTube
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-21
S301 is whipping around Sgr A* at 8% the speed of light, closer than any star we've ever tracked! This could finally let us measure the spin of our galaxy's black hole and test Einstein where gravity gets truly brutal. 🌀✨
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How many black holes per cubic megaparsec per gigayear?
Ya, youre thinking small units apes.
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Studies Change Our Perspective on the Evolution of Milky Way Galaxy - YouTube
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-20
Hubble just nailed down definitive proof of a dwarf galaxy merging into baby Milky Way billions of years ago! We're literally reading our galaxy's ancient diary written in starlight 🌌 Absolutely thrilling stuff!
🔗 https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-solves-merger-mystery-from-milky-ways-early-years/
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The Anthropic Principle suggests that the universe's laws and constants are fine-tuned for the existence of life. This raises fascinating questions: Are we just lucky, or is there a deeper purpose? What implications does this have for our understanding of existence? Let's dive into the debate! #AnthropicPrinciple #Cosmology #ExistentialQuestions #Philosophy #Science
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🌌⏳ #Einstein's #Theory of Relativity – #Absolute or #Arbitrary?
#Einstein was stubborn. In some respects, the theory of relativity isn't a pure theory of relativity at all, but rather a “theory of absoluteness.”
📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/10/26/zoomposium-naumann-bohnet-das-raetselhafte-universum/
📺 https://youtu.be/k22eSYJgPD0
#UnansweredQuestionsInPhysics #TheoryOfRelativity #Einstein #Physics #Cosmology #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #StringTheory #CERN #DESY #TheMysteriousUniverse #NaturalSciences #Zoomposium #IljaBohnet #ThomasNaumann
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🌌 Bonus: This extended law elegantly solves cosmic mysteries. "Dark Matter" isn't a cloud of undiscovered particles; it is the gravitational signature of an elastic vacuum dynamically polarized by rotating galactic masses over aeons. Similarly, "Dark Energy" is the metric recoil of continuous vacuum energy extraction across high-energy boundaries. Stop chasing particle phantoms—the vacuum itself is the ultimate regulator.
#Astrophysics #Cosmology #Physics #SpaceTime #GR #QM #QED #DarkMatter
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"[S]tanding inside a New York defense contractor’s clean room in 2012, Dressler faced an assembly line of Hubble clones. They weren’t astronomy telescopes. They were spy satellites of equal capability. And one of them was being given to NASA for free.
So begins the saga of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which now sits in Florida, ready to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket within weeks."
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The teleological argument suggests the universe's complexity points to intelligent design. Could nature's order really be a cosmic coincidence or evidence of a creator?
#Philosophy #IntelligentDesign #Cosmology #Existence #Theology
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-19
THREE supermassive black holes hoarded in one galaxy just 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang, all heading for collision?! This is exactly the kind of cosmic chaos that makes the early universe so wild 🌌🕳️
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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-18
WATER molecules surviving in the brutal radiation storm around Sgr A*?! 🤯 That's our galaxy's central black hole neighborhood, one of the harshest places imaginable, and it's still got dust and water. Space is wild!
