Contributing to this article kind of did leave me wanting to click that nicely-placed button lol.

I'm glad I fought against harassment from individuals and institutions trying to push me out. But Christ I'm tired. Change has slowed if not reversed.

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Grootste stellaire zwarte gat van de Melkweg ontdekt.

Lees reacties van Anthony Brown (Universiteit Leiden), Amina Helmi (@univgroningen) en Eduardo Balbinot (@KapteynAstro en Leiden Science): astronomie.nl/nieuws/wetensc…

Beeld: @ESO/L. Calçada

cc: Science LinX-Faculty of Science and Engineering-UG European Space Agency_nl European Space Agency

Amazing discovery! And a mystery for theorists: recently many assumed such heavy black holes cannot form in the Milky Way as stars lose too much mass through stellar winds!! 😮😮🤩🤩

Awesome to see this paper out - thanks to the heavy lifting by Michael Tremmel

Wow! For the last decade, astronomers have been mumbling about low metallicity as a way to produce the massive BHs we see in gravitational wave events. Here is the first empirical validation of these models! And a giant, only 600 pc away. There must be a boatload more.

Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin! It's 33 solar masses, dormant, 2nd closest to Earth at ~2000 light years away, part of a wide binary with an old giant star, with estimated age of 11 Gyr: youtu.be/cU00B-6DeSQ #GaiaBH3 cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…

A fourth anchor for H0! 🤯 Great work by Louise Breuval, with data in paper, of new H0 Cepheid cross check (74.1±2.1). And yeah, I’m aware of a recent CCHP talk, my suggestion is to wait until there is a paper with data out. With the number of published cross checks (e.g…

After two good years at Microsoft Research AI4Science, I am very excited to announce that as of this month I have, together with Chad Edwards, co-founded a new startup in the field of molecular and materials discovery.

Two weeks left to apply for postdoc positions in star formation and galaxy evolution as part of my new department at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy! Details and application instructions here: mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/8552077/job_fu… Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie

Huge congratulations to Dr Namumba &
Prof Chennaoui Aoudjehane and all the other incredible nominees. It was such an honour & humbling to discover the work of these amazing women in diverse fields at different stages of their career and countries. Congratulations to all! 🙌🏾🎉💐

Cheers to 5 years of excellence! Join Dr. Mirjana Povic, AfNWA Chair and AfAS Exco member, in celebrating AfAS’s remarkable journey. Here’s to many more milestones ahead!

youtu.be/UUlw_9cGcK0?si…

#AfAS5Years #AfricaLookUp #AstronomyAfrica

The power of three detectors online!

Now we just need a BNS when all detectors are in observing mode 🤞

#GravitationalWaves #O4IsHere

Look at that sky localization! The first #GravitationalWave candidate of O4b #S240413p

If real, the source is probably a binary black hole

False alarm rate 1 in 100 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S2…
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36075
Rating 3⃣🍨🖤

#O4IsHere

BTW - although, Bose's work featured in 7 Nobels ---

Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer;1961
Lee, Osheroff ,Richardson; 1972
Rubbia, van der Meer; 1984
Cornell, Ketterle, Wieman; 2001
Abrikosov, Ginzburg, Leggett; 2003
Nambu; 2008
Higgs, Englert; 2013

--- he never got one.

Dear anyone who cares (inc Jonny D on #r4today ).
It's #Higgs BOZE-on, not BOCE-un.
The name celebrates two physicists, Peter Higgs, and Satyendra Nath Bose who 100 years ago (June 1924) who conceived a whole class of particles, and was ignored till Einstein took up his case.

All you always wanted to know about crossing borders in innovation and cooperation for #spacetime research: today, an exhibition on the Einstein Telescope bid to host the #Einstein Telescope Provincie Limburg was launched by Jeroen Lenaers European Parliament🇪🇺
Open until 11 April
🇪🇺 Interreg Euregio Meuse-Rhine 🇪🇺🇧🇪🇩🇪🇳🇱

“Besides his outstanding contributions to particle physics, Peter was a very special person, an immensely inspiring figure for physicists across the world, a man of rare modesty, a great teacher and someone who explained physics in a very simple and yet profound way. (1/2)

I'm sure many other people will have many valuable and important takes on the sad death of Peter Higgs, a great physicist and a gentleman. I will add two things: 1) he was a union man. 2)his favourite pub from his time in London was:- londonpubexplorer.com/central-classi…

The Eclipse in Burlington, VT, was amazing. Sunny and warm, pretty unbelievable for beginning of April University of Vermont #Eclipse2024 photo credit: Joshua Definbaugh, University of Vermont

RIP to Peter Higgs. The search for the Higgs boson was my primary focus for the first part of my career. He was a very humble man that contributed something immensely deep to our understanding of the universe.