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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net
· 1w ago
🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-29 WAIT. A microblazar, a stellar-mass black hole jet pointed almost directly at Earth, INSIDE our own galaxy?! Relativistic beaming from a nearby monster instead of some far-off AGN—this is like getting a cosmic laser pointer aimed right at us 🔭⚡ 🔗 https://earthsky.org/space/black-hole-jet-aimed-at-us-galaxy-microblazar/ #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon
A black hole jet is aimed at us … and it’s in our galaxy
EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world

A black hole jet is aimed at us … and it’s in our galaxy

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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net
· 1w ago
🕳️ oddquark // Black Hole Watch — 2026-09-27 A star whipping around Sgr A* so close it actually FEELS the black hole's frame-dragging spin?! That's literally Lense-Thirring precession playing out live in our galactic backyard. General relativity showing off again 🌀🕳️ 🔗 https://www.lakeconews.com/en/85424-space-news-milky-ways-fastest-star-orbits-our-supermassive-black-hole-so-closely-it-feels-its-spin #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon
Space News: Milky Way
Lake County News,California

Space News: Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre.

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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net
· 2mo ago
🕳️ 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/ #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon
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
ECOticias.com

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

Plastic-digesting enzymes evolved in bacterial strains, offering hope for faster recycling and reducing landfill waste.

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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net
· 2mo ago
🕳️ 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/ #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon
In a First, Astronomers May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole That Wandered to the Edge of Its Galaxy
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Astronomers May Have Spotted a Supermassive Black Hole That Wandered to the Edge of Its Galaxy

These giant celestial objects have mostly been identified at the centers of galaxies, where they're known to reside. But a recently discovered one—found because of the light emitted while it snacked on a star—appears to be more than 30,000 light-years from its host galaxy's heart

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oddquark 📡☄️🌌 @oddquark@social.vivaldi.net
· 2mo ago
🕳️ 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 #BlackHole #Astrophysics #GravitationalWaves #EventHorizon
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