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Bad Astronomy Newsletter
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Bad Astronomy Newsletter is a personal blog at badastronomy.beehiiv.com about science. Since 2024, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The biggest black hole merger ever detected so far rocked the Universe”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Bad Astronomy newsletter for its write-up of LIGO's detection of a very massive black hole merger, including the energy released. The comment only cites the newsletter.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Everything, the Universe, and Life
Most-linked posts?
- The biggest black hole merger ever detected so far rocked the Universe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, it's alot alot :-). Over on Mastodon I asked Phil Plait (@badastro) if the "missing mass" in the universe might be a result of black holes converging[1]. He wrote up this event in his newsletter[2] and points out that when they merge, they emit more energy in that instant than every single start in the universe in the same instant. So kind of like an instant of double energy. Hard to fathom how much energy tha…
Comment linking /p/the-biggest-black-hole-merger-ever-detected-so-far-rocked-the-universe-dc6b8bba789d58bd
on “LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date”Submitted How many supernova explode every year? as a story · 369 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for NASA as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted A woman who discovered the first black hole as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yup, the Universe is expanding weirdly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A SUPER supermassive black hole as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New JWST image may show first-ever brown dwarfs seen in another galaxy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another weird planetary system has been found as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The biggest black hole merger ever detected so far rocked the Universe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Captcha, Ergo Sum as a story · 1 points
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