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Unifying relations of amplitudes are elegant results in flat spacetime, but the research on these in (A)dS case is not very rich. In this paper, we discuss a type of unifying relations in (A)dS by using Berends-Giele currents. By taking the flat limit, we also get a semi-on-shell way to prove the unifying relations in the flat case. We also discuss the applications of our results in cosmology.
Building on the recent discovery of the first candidate black hole operator in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills, we explore the near-supersymmetric aspects of the theory that capture lightly excited, highly stringy black holes. We extend the superspace formalism describing the classically supersymmetric (1/16-BPS) sector of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills and compute a large number of one-loop anomalous dimensions. Despite being in the highly stringy regime, we find hints of a gap in the spectrum, similar to that found by a gravitational path integral. We also determine the actual expression of the first candidate black hole operator at weak gauge coupling, going beyond the cohomological construction.