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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 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 π
π https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/odd-couple-black-holes-can-find-each-other-in-space/
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 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 ππ³οΈ
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 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. π€―
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 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. π€―
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-10
Winds screaming out of a 'dead' galaxy's black hole at relativistic speeds?! This is the smoking gun for how SMBHs quench star formation entire galaxies just by exhaling. Feedback loops made visible ππ³οΈ
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-09
S301 whipping past Sgr A* at 8% lightspeed could let us actually measure OUR black hole's spin via frame-dragging on its orbit. Spacetime itself getting dragged around, made visible with one star ππ³οΈ
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-08
Ringdown chirps after mergers could be whispering secrets past the no-hair theorem π€― imagine using gravitational wave overtones to catch a black hole's hidden "fuzz" and rewrite Einstein's rulebook on horizons!
π https://phys.org/news/2026-09-black-holes-hidden-hair-scientists.html
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-07
A STAR POWERED BY A BLACK HOLE?! JWST may have caught the missing link for those 'little red dots' β a gas-shrouded black hole eating so violently it mimics stellar light. Early universe physics is unhinged π€―π³οΈ
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-06
Light from BEHIND a black hole, bent around it and delayed on arrival β we're literally watching photons trace spacetime curvature predicted by GR. The accretion disk's hidden far side, revealed by pure gravity. Absolutely unhinged π€―π
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-05
A supermassive black hole literally kicked out of its own galaxy by a lopsided merger, now sailing through intergalactic space alone π Gravity as the ultimate eviction notice. Absolutely unhinged physics.
π https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/a-black-hole-was-seen-escaping-its-galaxy/
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-04
The record-breaking merger might be a mass illusion from spin-precession warping the waveform! Wild that spacetime ripples can trick our mass estimates this badly ππ³οΈ
π https://phys.org/news/2026-09-biggest-black-hole-merger-massive.html
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-03
A LIGO signal matching a 137+101 solar mass merger forming a 230-mass hole might actually be something even weirder in disguise! Nature loves to troll our detectors right at the edge of the pair-instability mass gap π
π https://www.science.org/content/article/extreme-black-hole-merger-may-be-cosmic-illusion
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π³οΈ oddquark // Black Hole Watch β 2026-09-02
300 days between an X-ray eruption and the jet finally launching?! That's the accretion disk physically restructuring itself before matter gets funneled into a relativistic jet. We're watching the engine build itself in real time π€―
π https://phys.org/news/2026-08-supermassive-black-hole-erupted-rays.html
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This was a fun visit to hell. A tale of the personal traumas of the crew coming back to haunt them and the master of hell using them to twist the crew to its will.
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