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  1. 🕳️ 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 🕳️😳

    🔗 futura-sciences.com/en/james-w

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  2. 🕳️ 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 🤯🕳️

    🔗 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  3. 🕳️ 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!

    🔗 nature.com/articles/s41550-026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  4. 🕳️ 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.

    🔗 physicsworld.com/a/super-loud-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  5. 🕳️ 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.

    🔗 physicsworld.com/a/super-loud-

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  6. 🕳️ 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 🤯🕳️

    🔗 livescience.com/physics-mathem

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  7. 🕳️ 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 🤯🕳️

    🔗 livescience.com/physics-mathem

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  8. 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
    newsbeep.com/au/801422/

  9. "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: bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

    #Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves

  10. "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: bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

    #Science #AstroPhysics #Astronomy #BlackHoles #Gravity #GravitationalWaves

  11. 🕳️ 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 🤯

    🔗 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  12. 🕳️ 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 🤯

    🔗 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  13. 🕳️ 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 🌀🕳️

    🔗 bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  14. 🕳️ 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.

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-07-gravitat

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  15. 🕳️ 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 🕳️✨

    🔗 space.com/astronomy/black-hole

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  16. 🕳️ 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!

    🔗 phys.org/news/2026-07-hidden-j

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  17. 🕳️ 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.

    🔗 ebsco.com/articles/astronomy-a

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  18. 🕳️ 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 🕳️😵

    🔗 yahoo.com/news/science/article

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  19. 🕳️ 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 🕳️😵

    🔗 yahoo.com/news/science/article

    #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon

  20. RE: academiccloud.social/@mpi_grav

    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.

    ℹ️ geo600.org/openday2026

    #SciComm #Astronomy #GravitationalWaves #Hanover #Sarstedt

  21. RE: academiccloud.social/@mpi_grav

    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.

    ℹ️ geo600.org/openday2026

    #SciComm #Astronomy #GravitationalWaves #Hanover #Sarstedt

  22. 📣 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”.

    ➡️ journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/ [Open Access publication]

    #NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon

  23. 📣 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”.

    ➡️ journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/ [Open Access publication]

    #NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon

  24. 📣 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”.

    ➡️ journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/ [Open Access publication]

    #NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon

  25. 📣 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”.

    ➡️ journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/ [Open Access publication]

    #NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon

  26. 📣 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”.

    ➡️ journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/ [Open Access publication]

    #NeutronStar #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #Astronomy #Astrodon

  27. Next Saturday, July 4th, the 11th Open Day at our gravitational-wave detector GEO600 will take place.

    ℹ️ geo600.org/openday2026

    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.

    P.S.: Last chance to see! This Open Day will be the last as GEO600 will cease operations at the end of this year.

    #SciComm #Astronomy #GravitationalWaves #Hanover #Sarstedt

  28. Next Saturday, July 4th, the 11th Open Day at our gravitational-wave detector GEO600 will take place.

    ℹ️ geo600.org/openday2026

    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.

    P.S.: Last chance to see! This Open Day will be the last as GEO600 will cease operations at the end of this year.

    #SciComm #Astronomy #GravitationalWaves #Hanover #Sarstedt

  29. New Selected Research Highlight:

    📣 A new way to study neutron stars using simulations and universal patterns
    Simulation-based inference helps to deal with the uncertainty about neutron star matter.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1439667/a-new-way-t

    #NeutronStars #GravitationalWaves

  30. New Selected Research Highlight:

    📣 A new way to study neutron stars using simulations and universal patterns
    Simulation-based inference helps to deal with the uncertainty about neutron star matter.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1439667/a-new-way-t

    #NeutronStars #GravitationalWaves