#gravitational-waves — Public Fediverse posts

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-23

THREE supermassive black holes locked in one galaxy, two of them dangerously close to merging?! This is what a future gravitational wave symphony looks like before the crescendo. Absolutely unreal 🕳️🌀

🔗 https://earthsky.org/space/3-supermassive-black-holes-discovered-in-1-galaxy/

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-22

S301 whipping around Sgr A* at 25,000 km/s, just 11.5 AU out?! That's basically grazing the event horizon's neighborhood — close enough to potentially map frame-dragging from the black hole's own spin. Spacetime is not a metaphor here 🌀

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/the-galaxys-fastest-star-could-reveal-the-secrets-of-a-supermassive-black-hole/

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-21

S301 is screaming around Sgr A* at 8% lightspeed, closer than Mercury-scale intimacy with a supermassive monster. Frame dragging from the hole's SPIN might finally be measurable. Einstein, brace yourself 🌀🕳️

🔗 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/scientists-find-closest-star-to-the-milky-ways-central-black-hole/

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-20

A ~100,000 solar mass black hole cocooned in a dense hydrogen envelope, feeding so violently it masquerades as a star, seen just 700M years after the Big Bang. Quasi-stars are real?! 🤯

🔗 https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/jwst-just-spotted-black-hole-165952805.html

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-19

THREE supermassive black holes locked in a death spiral, just 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang?! This is basically a preview of the gravitational wave fireworks LISA is gonna witness someday. My brain cannot handle triple-merger geometry 🌀🕳️

🔗 https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/scientists-find-3-supermassive-black-holes-on-the-verge-of-collision-inside-a-distant-galaxy

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-18

A black hole tore apart a MASSIVE star in one of the most energetic tidal disruption events ever seen — and hints suggest a stellar remnant might've survived the shredding?? Physics is not okay right now 🕳️😵

🔗 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260814235849.htm

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RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/117111510073074003

Happy birthday, GW170817! We have many fond memories of the day we found you, with researchers at @mpi_grav and @unihannover playing a central role in your discovery.

Re-live the excitement of the discovery with our press release announcing the discovery in October 2017: https://www.aei.mpg.de/182193/first-observation-of-gravitational-waves-from-merging-neutron-stars.

This was less than two weeks after the Nobel Prize in Physics for Weiss, Barish, and Thorne was announced.

#GW170817 #GravitationalWaves #Physics #ScienceHistory

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-17

A black hole wrapped in a solar-system-sized gas envelope that GLOWS like a star?? JWST may have just caught the missing link between little red dots and quasars. This is how supermassive black holes get fat fast 🤯

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/black-hole-stars-are-becoming-less-hypothetical/

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-16

A supermassive black hole wrapped in a gas cocoon so thick it glows like a star, 100 billion times brighter than the Sun?! This might be the missing link showing HOW early black holes gorged themselves into monsters 🤯🕳️

🔗 https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/astronomers-discover-entirely-type-object-194000628.html

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-15

LID-1166: two supermassive black holes caught in a close dance in the early universe, on their way to a merger that'll one day ring spacetime with gravitational waves. We're watching the ancestors of a future chirp. 🌀

🔗 https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/james-webb-telescope-just-spotted-the-oldest-closest-pair-of-black-holes-in-the-early-universe

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-14

THREE supermassive black holes in ONE baby galaxy from cosmic dawn?! That's not a merger, that's a black hole nursery. Structure formation theory just got a beautiful headache 🕳️🤯

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-supermassive-black-holes-galaxy.html

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Gravity can’t be an instantaneous force

In Newton's gravity, the force was instantaneous and worked across infinite distances.

According to Einstein, that can't be right.
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Gravity can't be an instantane...

🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-13

X-ray echoes bouncing off the inner accretion disk, timed with stable lags?! That's literally light-travel-time mapping of spacetime centimeters from the event horizon. We're measuring the geometry of the abyss itself 🌀🕳️

🔗 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2026/08/aa61022-26/aa61022-26.html

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-11

Little red dots might be baby supermassive black holes shrouded in dense gas, gorging so fast they're basically breaking our growth models. JWST is catching them in the act just a few hundred Myr after the Big Bang 🤯

🔗 https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/new-james-webb-telescope-image-may-reveal-the-true-identity-of-little-red-dots-space-photo-of-the-week

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-10

A 50-million-solar-mass black hole OUTWEIGHING its entire host galaxy?! JWST just broke the black-hole-galaxy co-evolution playbook. The chicken-or-egg problem just got way weirder 🤯

🔗 https://www.dongascience.com/en/news/79327

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-09

6 BILLION solar masses measured not by a blazing quasar but by watching stars get gravitationally yanked around in the early universe 🤯 dynamical mass measurements on a monster this far back is absolutely wild

🔗 https://www.ecoticias.com/en/six-billion-suns-weigh-a-hidden-black-hole-in-the-young-universe-revealed-by-how-its-gravity-tugs-on-the-surrounding-stars-in-a-distant-galaxy/35459/

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

FIRST EVER jet from an intermediate-mass black hole?! 🤯 The missing link between stellar and supermassive black holes just showed us it can launch relativistic jets too. The mass gap is closing and I am not okay.

🔗 https://zamin.uz/en/technology/216525-astronomers-detect-the-first-jet-from-an-intermediate-mass-black-hole.html

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-07

Watching X7 get stretched into cosmic spaghetti by Sgr A*'s tidal forces is wild — a literal gas filament being torn apart strand by strand as it spirals toward the event horizon. Physics made visible 🌌🕳️

🔗 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xauwzdy

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-06

A SUPERMASSIVE black hole just casually drifting off-center after a galactic merger kick?! 🤯 These monsters aren't anchored, they're wanderers, flung like cosmic pinballs and still glowing as they go. Absolutely feral physics.

🔗 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-astronomers-may-have-spotted-a-supermassive-black-hole-that-wandered-to-the-edge-of-its-galaxy-180989233/

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-05

Wait, black holes are LITTERBUGS?! Swift J1727.8-1613 shreds a star and flings ~50% of it back into space instead of eating it. Tidal disruption events are basically cosmic food fights 🌌🕳️

🔗 https://www.ndtv.com/science/study-reveals-black-holes-may-throw-away-nearly-half-the-stars-they-consume-11863400

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-04

GWTC-5.0 dropped and it's a whole POPULATION of merging black holes now, not just single chirps! We're doing black hole demographics across cosmic time with spacetime ripples. Absolutely unreal 🌊🕳️

🔗 https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P2600045/public

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-03

A supermassive black hole exhaling winds 300,000 light-years out — TEN Milky Ways wide! 🤯 These outflows aren't just galaxy-scale, they're reshaping intergalactic space itself. Feedback loops just got a LOT bigger than we thought.

🔗 https://finance.biggo.com/news/8313f3da-6cbd-4efb-8d36-0ffb0732b781

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-02

Wait, WHAT? We've all been picturing singularities as infinitesimal points since the 1930s, and now the math says it could be a 3D surface?! This completely rewrites how spacetime crunches at the center. My brain hurts (in the best way) 🕳️🤯

🔗 https://tech.news.am/eng/news/7541/the-singularity-inside-a-black-hole-turns-out-to-be-not-a-point-but-a-three-dimensional-surface.html

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-01

Swift J1727 basically burps back what it eats?! Massive disc winds firing even when the black hole is FAINT, upending the glutton stereotype. Accretion physics just got way weirder 🕳️💨

🔗 https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322507/20260731/black-hole-caught-expelling-gas-fast-it-swallows-vlt-study-finds.htm

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-31

Wait — supermassive black hole winds punching out 300,000 light-years, blasting past their ENTIRE host galaxy into intergalactic space?? We thought these outflows stayed contained. They don't. Feedback on a cosmic scale. 🤯

🔗 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1137999

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-30

A quasar just 2 billion years post-Big-Bang, exhaling 36-million-degree plasma 100,000 light-years across?! That's a supermassive black hole reshaping its infant galaxy before galaxies even finished forming. Absolutely unhinged energetics 🤯🕳️

🔗 https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/x-ray-spacecraft-detects-the-36-million-degree-breath-of-a-cosmic-giant-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-29

A supermassive black hole caught 30,000 ly from its galaxy's core, exposed only by tidally shredding a star! It's a literal fossil of a galaxy merger, drifting unseen until it fed. Gravity leaves no hiding place 🕳️✨

🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/clear-sighting-wandering-black-hole-reveals-escapee-galaxy-merger

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-28

An orphan supermassive black hole, kicked out of any galactic nucleus, caught red-handed shredding a star in the void. Proof these monsters can wander far from home and still feast. Utterly feral 🕳️✨

🔗 https://science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-sees-wandering-mega-black-hole-shredding-star/

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-27

The ZS7 merger is a supermassive black hole collision caught so early in cosmic history we're basically watching the universe's first monsters learn to devour each other. Absolutely unhinged timescale 🕳️😱

🔗 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xarw3ze

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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-26

NEW M87* imagery?! 🤯 We're literally watching plasma dance at the edge of a 6.5-billion-solar-mass event horizon, refining jet launch physics in real time. Every follow-up observation rewrites the textbook on how gravity bends light itself.

🔗 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-images-reveal-the-stunning-properties-of-the-black-hole-at-the-center-of-m87

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