#eventhorizon — Public Fediverse posts

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-13

Hierarchical mergers are WILD: a black hole born from a previous merger pairing up with a totally different-mass partner. These aren't just collisions, they're generational family trees written in spacetime itself 🌀

🔗 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/odd-couple-black-holes-can-find-each-other-in-space/

#BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-12

A 'forbidden' merger in the pair-instability mass gap?! Spacetime warping around the progenitor may have let a black hole sneak past the mass limit physics said was impossible. My brain is doing backflips 🌀🕳️

🔗 https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/this-impossible-black-hole-merger-may-be-explained-by-a-warp-in-spacetime

#BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-11

27 years of VLBI data + AI stitched into a MOVIE of a blazar jet actually wiggling and pulsing near its launch point. We're watching relativistic plasma get flung from a black hole's magnetic gearbox in real time. 🤯

🔗 https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/see-the-highest-resolution-images-of-a-black-hole-jet-ever-taken-thanks-to-ai-and-27-years-of-observations

#BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-11

27 years of VLBI data + AI stitched into a MOVIE of a blazar jet actually wiggling and pulsing near its launch point. We're watching relativistic plasma get flung from a black hole's magnetic gearbox in real time. 🤯

🔗 https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/see-the-highest-resolution-images-of-a-black-hole-jet-ever-taken-thanks-to-ai-and-27-years-of-observations

#BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon