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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-07
A STAR POWERED BY A BLACK HOLE?! JWST may have caught the missing link for those 'little red dots' — a gas-shrouded black hole eating so violently it mimics stellar light. Early universe physics is unhinged 🤯🕳️
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🕳️ 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 🤯🌌
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🕳️ 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 🤯🌌
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🕳️ 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.
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/a-black-hole-was-seen-escaping-its-galaxy/
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🕳️ 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.
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/a-black-hole-was-seen-escaping-its-galaxy/
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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.
➡️ https://www.geo600.org/66095/1995
#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves
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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.
➡️ https://www.geo600.org/66095/1995
#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves
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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.
➡️ https://www.geo600.org/66095/1995
#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves
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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.
➡️ https://www.geo600.org/66095/1995
#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves
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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.
➡️ https://www.geo600.org/66095/1995
#GEO600Highlights #GEO600 ^#Research #ScienceHistory #GravitationalWaves
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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
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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
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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
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/879584/ -
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
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🕳️ 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 🌀🕳️
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-09-biggest-black-hole-merger-massive.html
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🕳️ 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 🌀
🔗 https://www.science.org/content/article/extreme-black-hole-merger-may-be-cosmic-illusion
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🕳️ 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 🤯
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-supermassive-black-hole-erupted-rays.html
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🕳️ 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 🕳️😵
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-red-dot-pairs-hint-black.html
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🕳️ 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 🌌😱
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/hidden-signal-universe-first-black-holes/
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🕳️ 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 🤯🌀
🔗 https://www.technology.org/2026/08/28/a-star-that-feels-our-galaxies-central-black-hole-rotate/
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🕳️ 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 🌌😱
🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260827010457.htm
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🕳️ 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 🤯🌀
🔗 https://www.mpg.de/26940743/do-black-holes-pretend-to-have-large-masses
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🕳️ 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 🤯
🔗 https://theweek.com/science/scientists-discover-black-hole-star
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🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-08-26
A star that survives repeated close shaves with a supermassive black hole, getting shredded a little more each orbit, flares fading as its spin bleeds away?? Cosmic vampirism in slow motion and I am OBSESSED 🌀🔥
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The GEO600 project will end on 31 December 2026
The gravitational-wave detector GEO600 south of Hanover, Germany, will cease operation at the end of 2026. The last Open Day will take place this summer. Group tours will be offered until the end of the year. In early 2027, dismantling of the facility will begin.
@maxplanckgesellschaft director Karsten Danzmann will retire on 31 March 2026. As a consequence, funding for the GEO600 project will terminate at the end of the year.
GEO600 is a beacon of international research. Technologies developed and tested in the GEO project are now used in all major gravitational-wave detectors around the world. The findings and experience gained also play a role in preparing future observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and the Cosmic Explorer.
ℹ️ https://www.geo600.org/240777/das-geo600-projekt-endet-am-31-dezember-2026
#GravitationalWaves #Physics #Astrophysics #Research #GEO600
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New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories
The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes.
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20260305
#LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves #gravitation #physics #space #science #news #astrodon #astrophysics #blackholes
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Almost exactly 30 years ago – on Monday, 4 September 1995 – on a meadow on the grounds of the [email protected] near Ruthe, south of Hanover, Germany: Karsten Danzmann breaks the ground for the German-British gravitational-wave detector GEO600.
GEO600 is a key technology development center of the international gravitational-wave research community. Technologies developed and tested in the GEO project are now used in all large gravitational-wave detectors in the world.
You can read the complete story of GEO600 from the groundbreaking ceremony to the present day in the GEO600 diary.
➡️ https://www.geo600.org/25089/geo600-diary
Today, GEO600 researchers will take their detector to the next level. Their goal is to search for gravitational waves at frequencies much higher than those observed by current instruments and to deepen our understanding of dark matter and the early Universe.
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Leveling up GEO600 🚀🎚️
The gravitational-wave detector GEO600 is being upgraded to enable observations at very high frequencies.
ℹ️ https://www.geo600.org/219762/levelling-up-geo600
The detection of high-frequency gravitational waves could shed light on dark matter, exotic physics, and the early Universe.
The upgrades at the cutting edge of science will maintain GEO600's status as a pioneer in gravitational-wave research.
#GEO600 #GEO600VHF #GravitationalWaves #DarkMatter #astrophysics #physics #research
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Understanding mysterious magnetars 🧲 and radio bursts 🌟 with gravitational waves
A flash of radio waves lasting a few thousandths of a second, as bright as millions or billions of stars, and it’s all over: even almost 20 years after their discovery, fast radio bursts remain one of the most mysterious phenomena in our Universe. Scientists believe that neutron stars – very small and extremely dense stellar remnants with huge magnetic fields – emit these bursts.
An international team has now used gravitational waves to study a nearby neutron star that has emitted several radio bursts. The researchers analyzed data from the German-British GEO600 detector to learn more about the origin of these events. Their results contribute to a better understanding of these extreme events and their theoretical description.
📄 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8de0 [Open Access]
#Magnetar #FRB #FastRadioBurst #GravitationalWaves #GEO600 #NeutronStar #SGR1935+2154
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Understanding mysterious magnetars 🧲 and radio bursts 🌟 with gravitational waves
A flash of radio waves lasting a few thousandths of a second, as bright as millions or billions of stars, and it’s all over: even almost 20 years after their discovery, fast radio bursts remain one of the most mysterious phenomena in our Universe. Scientists believe that neutron stars – very small and extremely dense stellar remnants with huge magnetic fields – emit these bursts.
An international team has now used gravitational waves to study a nearby neutron star that has emitted several radio bursts. The researchers analyzed data from the German-British GEO600 detector to learn more about the origin of these events. Their results contribute to a better understanding of these extreme events and their theoretical description.
📄 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8de0 [Open Access]
#Magnetar #FRB #FastRadioBurst #GravitationalWaves #GEO600 #NeutronStar #SGR1935+2154
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“How gravitational waves could help detect Star Trek-style warp drive spaceships” 🚀✴️
Katy Clough, Sebastian Khan, and Tim Dietrich (@maxplanckgesellschaft Fellow at @mpi_grav) for “The Conversation” on their latest joint paper on the gravitational-wave signatures of collapsing warp drives.
Engage!
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Detecting Faster Than Light Travel by Extraterrestrials https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/detecting-faster-than-light-travel-by-extraterrestrials/ #gravitationalwaves #fasterthanlight #warpdrive #Space
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Detecting Faster Than Light Travel by Extraterrestrials - The idea of traveling faster than the speed of light (FTL) has been a popular idea... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/detecting-faster-than-light-travel-by-extraterrestrials/ #gravitationalwaves #fasterthanlight #warpdrive #space
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in the #arXiv
Do we Owe our Existence to Gravitational Waves?
by John Ellis and co-authors
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How #Smooth is a #NeutronStar? - #SixtySymbols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfLvuH41sg8&ab_channel=SixtySymbols
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How #Smooth is a #NeutronStar? - #SixtySymbols
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How #Smooth is a #NeutronStar? - #SixtySymbols
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How #Smooth is a #NeutronStar? - #SixtySymbols
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How #Smooth is a #NeutronStar? - #SixtySymbols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfLvuH41sg8&ab_channel=SixtySymbols
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