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  1. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-06

    Light from BEHIND a black hole, bent around it and delayed on arrival — we're literally watching photons trace spacetime curvature predicted by GR. The accretion disk's hidden far side, revealed by pure gravity. Absolutely unhinged 🤯🌌

    🔗 thebrighterside.news/post/astr

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  2. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-06

    Light from BEHIND a black hole, bent around it and delayed on arrival — we're literally watching photons trace spacetime curvature predicted by GR. The accretion disk's hidden far side, revealed by pure gravity. Absolutely unhinged 🤯🌌

    🔗 thebrighterside.news/post/astr

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  3. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-05

    A supermassive black hole literally kicked out of its own galaxy by a lopsided merger, now sailing through intergalactic space alone 🚀 Gravity as the ultimate eviction notice. Absolutely unhinged physics.

    🔗 dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/a-blac

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  4. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-05

    A supermassive black hole literally kicked out of its own galaxy by a lopsided merger, now sailing through intergalactic space alone 🚀 Gravity as the ultimate eviction notice. Absolutely unhinged physics.

    🔗 dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/a-blac

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  5. How it all began almost exactly 31 years ago:

    Karsten Danzmann breaks the ground for the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 on 4 September 1995. He did not have to dig the two 600 meter long arm trenches all by himself, though 😉

    Until the end of 1995 the foundations for the central building were done and the arm trenches were prepared.

    ➡️ geo600.org/66095/1995

    #GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

  6. How it all began almost exactly 31 years ago:

    Karsten Danzmann breaks the ground for the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 on 4 September 1995. He did not have to dig the two 600 meter long arm trenches all by himself, though 😉

    Until the end of 1995 the foundations for the central building were done and the arm trenches were prepared.

    ➡️ geo600.org/66095/1995

    #GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

  7. How it all began almost exactly 31 years ago:

    Karsten Danzmann breaks the ground for the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 on 4 September 1995. He did not have to dig the two 600 meter long arm trenches all by himself, though 😉

    Until the end of 1995 the foundations for the central building were done and the arm trenches were prepared.

    ➡️ geo600.org/66095/1995

    #GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

  8. How it all began almost exactly 31 years ago:

    Karsten Danzmann breaks the ground for the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 on 4 September 1995. He did not have to dig the two 600 meter long arm trenches all by himself, though 😉

    Until the end of 1995 the foundations for the central building were done and the arm trenches were prepared.

    ➡️ geo600.org/66095/1995

    #GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

  9. How it all began almost exactly 31 years ago:

    Karsten Danzmann breaks the ground for the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600 on 4 September 1995. He did not have to dig the two 600 meter long arm trenches all by himself, though 😉

    Until the end of 1995 the foundations for the central building were done and the arm trenches were prepared.

    ➡️ geo600.org/66095/1995

    #GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves

  10. Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes

    When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #Astrophysics #blackhole #GeneralRelativity #gravitationalwaves #Science #UniversityofCambridge
    newsbeep.com/us/836111/

  11. Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes

    When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Astrophysics #AU #Australia #Blackhole #generalrelativity #Gravitationalwaves #Science #universityofcambridge
    newsbeep.com/au/879584/

  12. Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes

    When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Astrophysics #AU #Australia #Blackhole #generalrelativity #Gravitationalwaves #Science #universityofcambridge
    newsbeep.com/au/879584/

  13. Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes

    When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Astrophysics #BlackHole #generalrelativity #gravitationalwaves #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #universityofcambridge
    newsbeep.com/uk/759560/

  14. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🌀🕳️

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-09-biggest-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  15. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🌀🕳️

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-09-biggest-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  16. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🌀

    🔗 science.org/content/article/ex

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  17. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🌀

    🔗 science.org/content/article/ex

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  18. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🌀

    🔗 science.org/content/article/ex

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  19. ✨ Our research featured in science magazines:

    In Science:
    ➡️ science.org/content/article/ex

    In Bild der Wissenschaft:
    ➡️ wissenschaft.de/artikel/raetse

    Read our press release:
    Do black holes pretend to have large masses?
    A potential explanation for a mysterious gravitational wave signal.

    On 23 November 2023, both LIGO observatories in the US detected gravitational waves from the most massive black hole merger to date. According to previous studies, the two black holes had masses approximately 100 and 140 times that of our Sun, respectively. However, according to standard models of stellar evolution, black holes of these masses are difficult to form. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have now proposed an explanation for these unusual masses. The signal may have been magnified by a galaxy and diffracted by an object within it, making the black holes appear more massive than they really are.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1490509/do-black-ho

    #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles

  20. ✨ Our research featured in science magazines:

    In Science:
    ➡️ science.org/content/article/ex

    In Bild der Wissenschaft:
    ➡️ wissenschaft.de/artikel/raetse

    Read our press release:
    Do black holes pretend to have large masses?
    A potential explanation for a mysterious gravitational wave signal.

    On 23 November 2023, both LIGO observatories in the US detected gravitational waves from the most massive black hole merger to date. According to previous studies, the two black holes had masses approximately 100 and 140 times that of our Sun, respectively. However, according to standard models of stellar evolution, black holes of these masses are difficult to form. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have now proposed an explanation for these unusual masses. The signal may have been magnified by a galaxy and diffracted by an object within it, making the black holes appear more massive than they really are.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1490509/do-black-ho

    #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles

  21. ✨ Our research featured in science magazines:

    In Science:
    ➡️ science.org/content/article/ex

    In Bild der Wissenschaft:
    ➡️ wissenschaft.de/artikel/raetse

    Read our press release:
    Do black holes pretend to have large masses?
    A potential explanation for a mysterious gravitational wave signal.

    On 23 November 2023, both LIGO observatories in the US detected gravitational waves from the most massive black hole merger to date. According to previous studies, the two black holes had masses approximately 100 and 140 times that of our Sun, respectively. However, according to standard models of stellar evolution, black holes of these masses are difficult to form. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have now proposed an explanation for these unusual masses. The signal may have been magnified by a galaxy and diffracted by an object within it, making the black holes appear more massive than they really are.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1490509/do-black-ho

    #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles

  22. ✨ Our research featured in science magazines:

    In Science:
    ➡️ science.org/content/article/ex

    In Bild der Wissenschaft:
    ➡️ wissenschaft.de/artikel/raetse

    Read our press release:
    Do black holes pretend to have large masses?
    A potential explanation for a mysterious gravitational wave signal.

    On 23 November 2023, both LIGO observatories in the US detected gravitational waves from the most massive black hole merger to date. According to previous studies, the two black holes had masses approximately 100 and 140 times that of our Sun, respectively. However, according to standard models of stellar evolution, black holes of these masses are difficult to form. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have now proposed an explanation for these unusual masses. The signal may have been magnified by a galaxy and diffracted by an object within it, making the black holes appear more massive than they really are.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1490509/do-black-ho

    #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles

  23. ✨ Our research featured in science magazines:

    In Science:
    ➡️ science.org/content/article/ex

    In Bild der Wissenschaft:
    ➡️ wissenschaft.de/artikel/raetse

    Read our press release:
    Do black holes pretend to have large masses?
    A potential explanation for a mysterious gravitational wave signal.

    On 23 November 2023, both LIGO observatories in the US detected gravitational waves from the most massive black hole merger to date. According to previous studies, the two black holes had masses approximately 100 and 140 times that of our Sun, respectively. However, according to standard models of stellar evolution, black holes of these masses are difficult to form. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have now proposed an explanation for these unusual masses. The signal may have been magnified by a galaxy and diffracted by an object within it, making the black holes appear more massive than they really are.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1490509/do-black-ho

    #GravitationalWaves #BlackHoles

  24. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🤯

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-08-supermas

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  25. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 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 🤯

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-08-supermas

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  26. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-01

    Little Red Dots pairing up as black hole merger progenitors in the infant universe?! We might be watching the ancestry of today's supermassive beasts caught mid-courtship 🕳️😵

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-08-red-dot-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  27. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-01

    Little Red Dots pairing up as black hole merger progenitors in the infant universe?! We might be watching the ancestry of today's supermassive beasts caught mid-courtship 🕳️😵

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-08-red-dot-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  28. Astronomers hear a mysterious ‘hum’ across the universe; one explanation begins with strange dark stars 13 billion years ago

    Astronomers may have found a new way to investigate one of the biggest mysteries in cosmic history: how…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #blackholeformation #cosmichistory #Darkmatter #DarkStars #earlyuniverse #gravitationalwaves #PulsarTimingArrays #supermassiveblackholes
    newsbeep.com/us/831643/

  29. Astronomers hear a mysterious ‘hum’ across the universe; one explanation begins with strange dark stars 13 billion years ago

    Astronomers may have found a new way to investigate one of the biggest mysteries in cosmic history: how…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #blackholeformation #cosmichistory #Darkmatter #DarkStars #earlyuniverse #gravitationalwaves #PulsarTimingArrays #supermassiveblackholes
    newsbeep.com/us/831643/

  30. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-31

    A faint gravitational-wave hum that could be a fossil signal from the very first black holes forming in the infant universe?! We might be hearing the birth cries of monsters older than galaxies themselves 🌌😱

    🔗 dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/hidden

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  31. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-31

    A faint gravitational-wave hum that could be a fossil signal from the very first black holes forming in the infant universe?! We might be hearing the birth cries of monsters older than galaxies themselves 🌌😱

    🔗 dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/hidden

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  32. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-30

    A star literally FEELING Sgr A*'s frame-dragging?! Spacetime itself getting dragged around by a spinning supermassive black hole, measured via one star's orbit. This is Lense-Thirring made real 🤯🌀

    🔗 technology.org/2026/08/28/a-st

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  33. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-30

    A star literally FEELING Sgr A*'s frame-dragging?! Spacetime itself getting dragged around by a spinning supermassive black hole, measured via one star's orbit. This is Lense-Thirring made real 🤯🌀

    🔗 technology.org/2026/08/28/a-st

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  34. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-29

    The gravitational-wave background hum every pulsar array keeps detecting might be the ghostly signature of the UNIVERSE'S FIRST black holes, born 13 billion years ago as 'dark stars.' We may be hearing the birth cry of spacetime itself 🌌😱

    🔗 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  35. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-29

    The gravitational-wave background hum every pulsar array keeps detecting might be the ghostly signature of the UNIVERSE'S FIRST black holes, born 13 billion years ago as 'dark stars.' We may be hearing the birth cry of spacetime itself 🌌😱

    🔗 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  36. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-28

    Wait, the most massive LIGO merger ever might be a mass-illusion?! If spin precession can fake a bigger mass signal, we may need to rewrite the whole black hole merger mass ladder 🤯🌀

    🔗 mpg.de/26940743/do-black-holes

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  37. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-28

    Wait, the most massive LIGO merger ever might be a mass-illusion?! If spin precession can fake a bigger mass signal, we may need to rewrite the whole black hole merger mass ladder 🤯🌀

    🔗 mpg.de/26940743/do-black-holes

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  38. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-27

    Wait, a black hole wrapped in a stellar envelope, glowing like a star while an event horizon lurks inside?? Nature just broke my mental category boundaries in one object 🤯

    🔗 theweek.com/science/scientists

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  39. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-27

    Wait, a black hole wrapped in a stellar envelope, glowing like a star while an event horizon lurks inside?? Nature just broke my mental category boundaries in one object 🤯

    🔗 theweek.com/science/scientists

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  40. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-25

    A black hole literally got KICKED OUT of its host system by asymmetric gravitational wave recoil and is now sprinting through space alone. Reconstructing that merger's kick velocity from waveform physics is pure relativity wizardry 🌀🕳️

    🔗 news.ucsb.edu/2026/022754/phys

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  41. 🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-25

    A black hole literally got KICKED OUT of its host system by asymmetric gravitational wave recoil and is now sprinting through space alone. Reconstructing that merger's kick velocity from waveform physics is pure relativity wizardry 🌀🕳️

    🔗 news.ucsb.edu/2026/022754/phys

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon