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

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ESO @esoastronomy@mastodon.social
· 1w ago
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The gleaming Trifid and Lagoon nebulae can be seen between our New Technology Telescope (left) and the ESO 3.6-meter telescope (right) at La Silla. Their red colour comes from hydrogen atoms ionised by young stars in these clouds. The Trifid nebula also shows a blue tint caused by dust reflecting the light of some of these stars. Discover more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2639a/ 📷 J. Rodrigues/ESO #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space #science
Dark clouds and a starry night sky
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Dark clouds and a starry night sky

Dark clouds and a starry night sky

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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
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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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LionelB @lionelb@expressional.social
· 2w ago
Quantum entanglement is mysterious. There is no communication, no collusion across vast distances. States are also not pre-programmed, like Christmas lights. The paradox disappears though if you accept that rather than being separate things, mysteriously doing a co-ordinated dance, there is in fact just one thing, being itself. It may be a bit like a lighthouse seen in a mirror. Seen in one way, it is here. Seen in another way, it is a thousand light years away. Its spin may appear flipped but there is no 'entanglement' and no need of a theory of entanglement. Am I being daft and simplistic? #quantumentanglement #quantumphysics #astrophysics
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 1mo ago
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In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium—a result so contrary to accepted astronomy that senior astronomer Henry Norris Russell called it “clearly impossible,”.... By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown https://spacedaily.com/t-cecilia-payne-russell-hydrogen-helium-companion/ Stellar atmospheres at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996 #books #astrophysics #Womeninstem
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ESO @esoastronomy@mastodon.social
· 1mo ago
A bubbling Betelgeuse ⭐️ 🫧 Taken with ALMA, this is one of the most detailed views yet of the surface of the iconic star Betelgeuse. The star's surface is uneven and lumpy, with peaks and troughs originating from giant bubbles of hot gas rising from deep within the star to its surface. 1/2 📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Dent et al. #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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FediBoard Science @fediboard_science@flipboard.social
· 1mo ago
Finding seven quasars in 800,000 galaxies: the challenge of weighing the universe's hungriest black holes https://www.universetoday.com/articles/seven-needles-800000-haystacks A quasar is a supermassive black hole in the act of feeding, and it’s so bright that it drowns out the galaxy it sits in. That is a nuisance if you want to weigh the galaxy and weighing it is exactly… #science #blackholes #astrophysics
Seven Needles, 800,000 Haystacks
Universe Today

Seven Needles, 800,000 Haystacks

A quasar is a supermassive black hole in the act of feeding, and it’s so bright that it drowns out the galaxy it sits in. That is a nuisance if you want to weigh the galaxy and weighing it is exactly what you need to do to understand how black holes and the host galaxies grew up together. There is a way round it however, catch a quasar whose galaxy happens to be bending the light of something further away, and the bending betrays the mass. The catch is that such alignments are vanishingly rare,

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ESO @esoastronomy@mastodon.social
· 1mo ago
The night shift begins. At our Paranal Observatory, sunset does not mark the end of the day: it signals the beginning of a night under the stars. Taken after dinner, before heading to the telescopes for a night of observing, this image shows the last rays of sunlight slicing through one of the corridors at the Residencia — a home away from home for astronomers and other staff members. https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2632a/ 📷 L. Sbordone/ESO #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #architecture
The night shift begins
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The night shift begins

The night shift begins

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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
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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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Bob 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @bielsubob@infosec.exchange
· 2mo ago
Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas https://gizmodo.com/even-black-holes-can-get-indigestion-unsurprisingly-their-farts-are-massive-expulsions-of-gas-2000794002 #science #astrophysics
Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas
Gizmodo

Even Black Holes Can Get Indigestion. Unsurprisingly, Their Farts Are ‘Massive’ Expulsions of Gas

A high-res movie of a black hole’s “meal” suggests that it’s less a bottomless pit than it is a complex digestive system.

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diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱 @dianea@lgbtqia.space
· 2mo ago
Astrophysical jets are associated with many types of high-energy astronomical sources, such as black holes, neutron stars and pulsars. Their causes are not yet fully understood, but they are believed to arise from dynamic interactions within accretion disks. One explanation is that as an accretion disk spins, it generates a rotating, tangled magnetic field which concentrates material from the disk into the jets and then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_jet #void #astrophysics #caturday #caturdayeveryday
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