Notices by erl (erl@chaosfem.tw)

The grinch wasn’t planning to be seen so like dressing up as a santa was strictly for the whimsy right?

Wild that the betting markets (predictit) is putting us at 35% chance of the govt shutdown lasting for at least 3 more weeks.

i know that the betting markets are often a bad predictor of anything, but they are a neat barometer of public opinion and it’s baffling that we’ve all just kind of accepted that the federal goverment won’t be back before halloween

181111181 is prime and idk that might be my new favorite number. Symmetric left-right and up-down and made of just 8 and 1 (and 8+1= 9 digits long!)

Tipsie selfie!

Does end to end encryption mean god can’t see it? Asking for a fiend

is it still doomscrolling when there’s real doom out there or is it just regular scrolling

i don’t have the energy to put it together, but just imagine that screenshot of the dude from Airplane saying “guess I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue” but like with the ‘stop sniffing glue’ replaced with ‘stop doomscrolling’

It’s called the last SUPPER not the last DINNER which is undeniable proof that Jesus was a midwesterner

Genuine shame that it’s 2024 and we still haven’t yet had an openly Juggalo president

I have my suspicions about Harding though tbh

Therapist: monospaced comic sans isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
Monospaced comic sans:

@powersoffour wait how should I interpret that?

my most gen X trait is that I love the aesthetic of the default IDL plotting routines

Virtually all haunted-house horror movies are just pro-gentrification allegories where a thriving community of ghosts, spectres, and demons are removed from their home by folks seeking cheap housing and their removal is almost always supported by institutional powers like the church and police. In this essay I will

Kinda weird how normalized skeleton nudity is these days

got a good ant photo last night

need to clean my dusty mirror but trying out an outfit for a thing

hey yall, here's a #science thread!

One of the larger excitements of my past couple months is finally getting this paper out -- it's up on arXiv tonight and accepted to ApJL (with an AAS Nova highlight on the way)

This paper is trying to answer the question of how many really big black holes are in our corner of the universe and the consequence of that number.

We think that our work substantially refines the census of black holes more than about a billion times the mass of the sun, which places constraints on the evolution of massive galaxies over the past couple billion years and furthers our understanding of the cosmic gravitational wave background

In this thread I'll tell ya how we did it! Let's dive in!

Read the paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14595

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#science #astronomy #astrophysics #astro

An important discovery in the past quarter century or so of extragalactic astronomy is the existence of scaling relations which very simply relate different properties of those galaxies.

One of the most intriguing relations connects the total stellar mass of a galaxy to the mass of its black hole. Virtually every evolved galaxy in the sky has a supermassive black hole in its center, and the mass of each of those black holes is about 0.2% the mass of the stars in its galaxy.

At first glance, this relation is pretty simple -- big galaxies have big black holes. But more profoundly this relation suggests that supermassive black holes co-evolve with the galaxies they live in.

This winds up begin a really useful tool: If you know the mass of all the stars in a galaxy, you can reasonably estimate the mass of its black hole! So if we want to build a census of black holes, we can start out with a census of galaxy stellar masses!

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It’s still ungodly warm out so I guess it’s yet another sundress day