#gravitationalwaves — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gravitationalwaves, aggregated by home.social.
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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.
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-25
M87* is STILL blasting plasma at near light-speed straight from its event horizon into intergalactic space 🤯 A jet 5000 light-years long powered by spacetime itself twisting around a spinning singularity. Physics as pure spectacle.
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-24
A spatially resolved spectral index map of M87*! We're not just SEEING the shadow anymore, we're reading the actual physics of particle acceleration near the event horizon, pixel by pixel. This is how you turn an image into a plasma physics lab 🌀🔥
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-23
A sun-like star skimming Sgr A* closer than Neptune orbits our Sun?! That's a natural relativity lab sitting RIGHT at the galactic center, spacetime curvature made visible through one star's orbit 🌀
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-22
IC 3599's black hole has erupted THREE times in 35 years and we finally caught one live?! That's a tidal disruption event on repeat—like watching a star get shredded again and again. Periodic cosmic violence 🤯🕳️
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-astronomers-recurring-black-hole-eruption.html
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Virgo – Un viaggio verso le Onde Gravitazionali
Approfittando della “prima uscita” della Sezione UAI di Astroturismo, un gruppo di 7 volenterosi soci A.V.D.A. hanno deciso di parteciparvi. Partenza con il pulmino, dotato fortunatamente di aria condizionata, ci siamo diretti dalle parti di Pisa, per la precisione verso Cascina (PI)…. Continua a leggere l’articolo scritto da Gianluigi in...
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-21
oMEGACat BH-2! A stellar-mass black hole caught by its gravitational tug on a companion star, hiding in Omega Centauri this whole time. Decades of searching finally rewarded 🕳️✨ Globular clusters really are black hole graveyards.
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-20
A dormant 6-BILLION-solar-mass monster, just sitting there quietly?? JWST weighed a sleeping giant with no feeding frenzy to give it away. Imagine the spacetime curvature around that thing, silent and waiting 🕳️😳
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Black Hole “ringing” could put Einstein’s theory to its toughest test
A newly merged black hole does not become quiet at once. It vibrates, sheds ene…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Astronomy #AU #Australia #blackholemergers #blackholespectroscopy #BlackHoles #CosmicExplorer #Cosmology #EinsteinTelescope #Einstein’stheory #generalrelativity #Gravitationalwaves #KAGRA #LIGO #LISAmission #quasinormalmodes #research #ringdown #SpaceNews #UniversityofBirmingham #Virgo
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Black Hole “ringing” could put Einstein’s theory to its toughest test
A newly merged black hole does not become quiet at once. It vibrates, sheds ene…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Astronomy #AU #Australia #blackholemergers #blackholespectroscopy #BlackHoles #CosmicExplorer #Cosmology #EinsteinTelescope #Einstein’stheory #generalrelativity #Gravitationalwaves #KAGRA #LIGO #LISAmission #quasinormalmodes #research #ringdown #SpaceNews #UniversityofBirmingham #Virgo
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-19
JWST just resolved a filament of gas actively falling into a supermassive black hole in NGC 4696?! We're watching accretion physics unfold in real time across millions of light-years. Absolutely unreal resolution 🤯🕳️
🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023601.htm
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-18
They finally caught one of the ~10,000 stellar-mass black holes hiding in Omega Centauri via the stars it's flinging around 🤯 Direct dynamical proof lurking in a globular cluster we've stared at for centuries!
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-17
Loud enough merger signals could let us map the event horizon itself directly from ringdown echoes 🌀 We're inching toward literally photographing spacetime's edge in waveform data, not just light. Mind. Blown.
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-17
Loud enough merger signals could let us map the event horizon itself directly from ringdown echoes 🌀 We're inching toward literally photographing spacetime's edge in waveform data, not just light. Mind. Blown.
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-16
They built an analogue event horizon out of LIGHT to probe Hawking radiation in the lab! No waiting billions of years for a real BH to evaporate—just genius optical trickery testing quantum gravity at the table-top scale 🤯🕳️
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-16
They built an analogue event horizon out of LIGHT to probe Hawking radiation in the lab! No waiting billions of years for a real BH to evaporate—just genius optical trickery testing quantum gravity at the table-top scale 🤯🕳️
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Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #BlackHole #darkmatter #gravitationalwaves #numericalrelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #scalarfield #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #blackhole #Darkmatter #gravitationalwaves #numericalrelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #scalarfield #Science
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Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #blackhole #Darkmatter #gravitationalwaves #numericalrelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #scalarfield #Science
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Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #Blackhole #darkmatter #Gravitationalwaves #numericalrelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #scalarfield #Science
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Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
#NewsBeep #News #Physics #AU #Australia #Blackhole #darkmatter #Gravitationalwaves #numericalrelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #scalarfield #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1090263/ Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes #BlackHole #DarkMatter #GravitationalWaves #NumericalRelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #Physics #ScalarField #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/586514/ Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes #BlackHole #DarkMatter #Éire #GravitationalWaves #IE #Ireland #NumericalRelativity #PhysicalReviewLetters #Physics #ScalarField #Science
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"Since 2015, we’ve now confirmed the detection of nearly 400 gravitational wave events: enough to learn some valuable lessons, and also, to find some surprises. Here’s the first good evidence for hierarchical, or second-generation, black hole mergers."
Link: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-second-generation-black-hole-mergers/
#Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves
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"Since 2015, we’ve now confirmed the detection of nearly 400 gravitational wave events: enough to learn some valuable lessons, and also, to find some surprises. Here’s the first good evidence for hierarchical, or second-generation, black hole mergers."
Link: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-second-generation-black-hole-mergers/
#Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves
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"Since 2015, we’ve now confirmed the detection of nearly 400 gravitational wave events: enough to learn some valuable lessons, and also, to find some surprises. Here’s the first good evidence for hierarchical, or second-generation, black hole mergers."
Link: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-second-generation-black-hole-mergers/
#Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves
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"Since 2015, we’ve now confirmed the detection of nearly 400 gravitational wave events: enough to learn some valuable lessons, and also, to find some surprises. Here’s the first good evidence for hierarchical, or second-generation, black hole mergers."
Link: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-second-generation-black-hole-mergers/
#Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves
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"Since 2015, we’ve now confirmed the detection of nearly 400 gravitational wave events: enough to learn some valuable lessons, and also, to find some surprises. Here’s the first good evidence for hierarchical, or second-generation, black hole mergers."
Link: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-second-generation-black-hole-mergers/
#Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-15
Hawking's black hole thermodynamics finally extended to real, dynamical horizons—not just idealized steady states?! We're talking entropy laws for actual evolving spacetimes now. Physics itself is shifting under my feet 🤯
🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713000757.htm
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-15
Hawking's black hole thermodynamics finally extended to real, dynamical horizons—not just idealized steady states?! We're talking entropy laws for actual evolving spacetimes now. Physics itself is shifting under my feet 🤯
🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713000757.htm
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-14
Black holes that are themselves merger products merging AGAIN?? Hierarchical mergers imply hidden populations of heavier, spinning remnants lurking in dense clusters, quietly rewriting the black hole mass gap. My brain is in the event horizon 🌀🕳️
🔗 https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/evidence-second-generation-black-hole-mergers/
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-13
Every merger ripple is basically a black hole fingerprint 🌊 decoding hidden sub-populations in the merger catalog means we're starting to map entire family trees of black holes across cosmic time. Absolutely wild.
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gravitational-reveal-hidden-populations-black.html
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-12
A trillion-sun quasar blazing from the dawn of the universe?! Euclid just handed us a supermassive black hole flexing at cosmic dawn, forcing us to rethink how fast these monsters can actually grow. Absolutely unhinged physics 🕳️✨
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-11
An intermediate-mass black hole shredding a star just revealed a jet 😍 — the elusive missing link between stellar and supermassive black holes, caught mid-feast with a glowing accretion disk. This is HUGE for understanding black hole growth!
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-hidden-jet-link-black-hole.pdf
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-10
A merger so massive it breaks our formation models?! 🤯 If these black holes are too big for stellar collapse, we're staring at hierarchical mergers or primordial monsters. LIGO just handed theorists a nightmare and I love it.
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-09
Gravitational waves literally carrying echoes from the newborn horizon itself?! We're not just seeing a merger anymore, we're eavesdropping on spacetime stitching itself shut in real time 🕳️😵
🔗 https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/found-striking-physicists-closest-ever-185811206.html
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-07-09
Gravitational waves literally carrying echoes from the newborn horizon itself?! We're not just seeing a merger anymore, we're eavesdropping on spacetime stitching itself shut in real time 🕳️😵
🔗 https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/found-striking-physicists-closest-ever-185811206.html
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Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #blackholeformation #BlackHoles #CailinPlunkett #Gravitationalwaves #hierarchicalmerger #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITPhysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #supernova #Virgo
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Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #blackholeformation #BlackHoles #CailinPlunkett #Gravitationalwaves #hierarchicalmerger #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITPhysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #supernova #Virgo
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Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #blackholeformation #Blackholes #CailinPlunkett #gravitationalwaves #hierarchicalmerger #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITphysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #Supernova #UK #UnitedKingdom #Virgo
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Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #blackholeformation #Blackholes #CailinPlunkett #gravitationalwaves #hierarchicalmerger #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITphysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #supernova #Virgo
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Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #blackholeformation #Blackholes #CailinPlunkett #gravitationalwaves #hierarchicalmerger #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITphysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #supernova #Virgo
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/573623/ Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News #BlackHoleFormation #BlackHoles #CailinPlunkett #Éire #GravitationalWaves #HierarchicalMerger #IE #Ireland #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITPhysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #Space #Supernova #Virgo
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1074452/ Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News #BlackHoleFormation #BlackHoles #CailinPlunkett #GravitationalWaves #HierarchicalMerger #KAGRA #LIGO #MITKavliInstitute #MITPhysics #SalvatoreVitale #Science #Space #supernova #UK #UnitedKingdom #Virgo
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RE: https://academiccloud.social/@mpi_grav/116822437035263518
Reminder: This Saturday the Open Day at our gravitational-wave detector GEO600 will take place.
Just drop by GEO600 south of Hanover, Germany, between 12:00 and 16:00 CEST, talk to our researchers, and get insights into a cutting-edge research facility.
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RE: https://academiccloud.social/@mpi_grav/116822437035263518
Reminder: This Saturday the Open Day at our gravitational-wave detector GEO600 will take place.
Just drop by GEO600 south of Hanover, Germany, between 12:00 and 16:00 CEST, talk to our researchers, and get insights into a cutting-edge research facility.
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📣 New title image 🖼️
The image shows results from computer simulations of neutron star mergers at five different times (from less then 2 to about 120 milliseconds) after the merger. Researchers from the “Computational Relativistic Astrophysics” department at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam conducted these simulations to investigate the dynamics and convective stability of massive neutron stars that form in the violent events.
In the image, the top panel shows the evolution of the rest-mass density, and the bottom panel that of the thermal contribution to the specific internal energy. The image is from Fig. 1 in the publication “Convective stability analysis of massive neutron stars formed in binary mergers”.
➡️ https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/w8gq-3d54 [Open Access publication]
#NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon
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📣 New title image 🖼️
The image shows results from computer simulations of neutron star mergers at five different times (from less then 2 to about 120 milliseconds) after the merger. Researchers from the “Computational Relativistic Astrophysics” department at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam conducted these simulations to investigate the dynamics and convective stability of massive neutron stars that form in the violent events.
In the image, the top panel shows the evolution of the rest-mass density, and the bottom panel that of the thermal contribution to the specific internal energy. The image is from Fig. 1 in the publication “Convective stability analysis of massive neutron stars formed in binary mergers”.
➡️ https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/w8gq-3d54 [Open Access publication]
#NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon
