From horizon scales to cocoons: My favorite black hole papers of 2025

New year, new science. Time to think about my favorite papers of 2025. This is of course a hugely biased list, convolved with my personal scientific preferences. This list will be focused on the topics of black hole astrophysics. Phenomenology: AGNs, little red dots Not a terribly exciting year on the observational front for AGNs and black hole binaries. If you discount little red dots, that is.…