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Hai Q

@andyrukes.ca

#EinsteinWasRight⁣⁣
𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕
𝑻𝒉𝒆 #NuclearAge⁣⁣
𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕⁣⁣
#WarAndPeace
𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒓𝒉𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆⁣⁣
#SticksStonesAndAtomBombs⁣⁣
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒖𝒏⁣⁣
𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚⁣
𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉
#Enlightenment⁣⁣
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓⁣
#FusingTogether⁣⁣
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#NaturesWay⁣⁣
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May 29, 2026 at 8:41 PM

Hai Q

@andyrukes.ca

~ ⁣
𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝑰𝑽, 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔⁣
𝑨𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕⁣
𝑭𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓⁣
~ ⁣

#EinsteinWasRight⁣
#NuclearAge⁣
#WarAndPeace ⁣
#SticksStonesAndAtomBombs⁣
#Enlightenment⁣
#FusingTogether⁣
#NaturesWay⁣

May 29, 2026 at 8:35 PM

Dr Shanika Galaudage

@astronerdika.bsky.social

Mirror, mirror, reflecting our [LASER] beam...
What is the loudest [gravitational wave] signal that we've seen?

It’s #GW250114!

(Yes, it’s been two weeks since it was announced, but I can still celebrate! 🎉 )

#EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

An infographic created by @astronerdika titled “MIRROR, MIRROR, reflecting our LASER beam… what’s the LOUDEST signal gravitational wave we’ve seen?” explaining the gravitational-wave discovery GW250114 and how the observation confirms Hawking’s area law. The visual shows the mirrors in a gravitational-wave interferometer speaking about the loudest event they have seen. There are several illustrations as follows:

1. A simplified diagram of a laser interferometer. A red laser beam from a labeled “LASER source” hits a beam splitter, travels down two perpendicular arms, reflects off round mirrors, and recombines at a labeled “detector.” A label near the top-right mirror reads: “the DETECTOR, signal seen by LIGO Hanford & LIGO Livingston.” 
2. An illustration of a binary black hole merger, with two black circles spiraling inward. They are labeled ~34 solar masses and ~32 solar masses. Surrounding spiral lines represent gravitational waves. A nearby caption reads: “the SOURCE, Discovered in 2025, on January 14, at 08:22:03 UTC.”

3. A prominent speech bubble with white text on a purple background states: “GW250114 is the loudest & clearest signal we’ve seen!” A smaller note below reads: “as of January 2025.”

4. Another speech bubble reads: “AND we saw that Hawking was right too!”

5. Visual explanation of Hawking’s Area Law. Two small circles labeled “this BH” + “this BH” are shown to the left of a “<” symbol, pointing to a larger circle labeled “the surface area of the merged BH.” Below there is the explanatory sentence: “GW250114’s remnant event horizon area is larger than the sum of the individual areas.”

6. A section titled “the PAPERS” lists two arXiv references: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08054 and https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.08099

Note: This infographic plays off the classic line from Snow White, “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” Here, the “mirrors” are the ones inside the laser interferometer, reflecting light to detect passing gravitational waves.

September 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

@ligo.org

"The clearest black hole merger signal yet … offers new insights into these mysterious objects."

@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social writes in @arstechnica.com about the discovery of #GW250114

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

#O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #KerrWasRight #HawkingWasRight 🧪🔭⚛️

A black hole hunting machine
New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem
Physicists spliced merger's gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface area

September 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

@ligo.org

"Landmark Black Hole Test Marks Decade of Gravitational-Wave Discoveries"

Chiara Mingarelli writes for APS Physics Magazine about #GW250114 physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

#O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🧪🔭⚛️

A cartoon showing the area of the two progenitor black holes inferred from the inspiral part of the signal is less than the area of the final black hole inferred from the ringdown part of the signal.

Credit: L. Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation

September 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

@ligo.org

"Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace"

@gayoung.bsky.social writes in @gizmodo.com about #GW250114

gizmodo.com/ligos-sharpe...

#O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️

Gizmondo headline "LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory" above an artistic image of a binary black hole merger in a soothing blue by Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation

September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

@ligo.org

"Strongest black hole collision yet confirms theories of Einstein, Hawking"

Adrian Cho of @science.org writes about our discovery of #GW250114

www.science.org/content/arti...

#O4IsHere #EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight #KerrWasRight 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

A comparison of GW250114 with our first detection GW150914. The stretching of space in the new black hole merger (top) is similar to that in the first one ever spotted (bottom), but because of reductions in the noise in the detectors, the signal stands out far more clearly.

Graphic by C. Bickel/Science. Data from us

September 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM

Carl Bond 🎨🧢🦾♻️☕️🌶️

@carl-bond.com

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0, lawyers folded... while 45 brags about lawyer shakedowns. If that’s not spooky action at a distance, I don’t know what is.

Authoritarians & power. Please don't tell me where this dark entanglement leads. I don't want to know.

#ArmandoAbregoGarcia
#EinsteinWasRight