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· 1mo ago

Here’s a commission I painted over the summer for a friend to give to his wife. During their time together, they’ve had a total of eight cats. So the cats are all specific. The cat with the stars around him was named Ziggy Stardust. My friend picked the composition and colors from my older works, sent me a bunch of photos of his cats, and requested a few other details. They live up in the mountains, so I included some of their local flora and fauna. The little copper planet shimmers with mica paint. 10” by 14” Pigment ink, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and mica on cotton paper. #watercolor #painting #blackhole

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· 1mo 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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· 1mo ago

🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-09-29 WHOA. Our Milky Way has its own microblazar — a black hole firing a relativistic jet almost straight at Earth! Hiding in plain sight this whole time?! Absolutely mind-blowing, I need a telescope RIGHT NOW 🔭✨ 🔗 https://earthsky.org/space/black-hole-jet-aimed-at-us-galaxy-microblazar/ #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

earthsky.org

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

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· 1mo 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

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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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· 1mo ago

🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-09-23 A universal 2% threshold triggers jets whether it's a stellar black hole in the Milky Way or a supermassive giant?! Same physics across billions of solar masses of difference. The universe really does love its scaling laws 🤯🕳️ 🔗 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260920222358.htm #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

Black holes of every size follow the same surprising rule

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Black holes of every size follow the same surprising rule

Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. Supermassive black holes can produce jets soon after tearing apart a star, then fire up again hundreds or thousands of days later when their feeding rate drops to about 2% of the Eddington limit. That same threshold is known to trigger jets from much smaller black holes in the Milky Way.

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· 3mo 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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· 3mo ago

🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-08-09 FIRST EVER jet spotted from an intermediate-mass black hole! 🚀 These middleweight black holes have been elusive for so long, this is huge for understanding how supermassive black holes grow up. Absolutely thrilled about this one! 🔗 https://zamin.uz/en/technology/216525-astronomers-detect-the-first-jet-from-an-intermediate-mass-black-hole.html #MilkyWay #BlackHole #Cosmology #Astronomy

Astronomers Detect the First Jet from an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

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Astronomers Detect the First Jet from an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

Chinese astronomers and their international collaborators have recorded a rare event for the first time in the history of space research: a jet (a flow of…

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· 3mo 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

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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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· 3mo 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

X-ray spacecraft detects the 36-million-degree 'breath' of an ancient black hole

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X-ray spacecraft detects the 36-million-degree 'breath' of an ancient black hole

"We believe we have identified a phase in its life in which cold gas falls towards the gravitational potential of this massive halo and is heated by gravitational shocks, reaching temperatures of about 36 million degrees Fahrenheit."