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Ukrainian naval drone explosion in Novorossiysk Bay kills 5 'elite' Russian divers, intelligence claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/ukrainian-naval-drone-explosion-in.html

Astronomie: Gigantische Gasblase um Roten Riesen stellt Entdecker vor ein Rätsel
Eine bislang unbekannte gigantische Blase um den Roten Riesen DFK 52 deutet auf eine Explosion vor 4000 Jahren hin. Wie er die überstanden hat, ist unklar.

Absence of Radio Emission Reveals an Exceptionally Weak Explosion of the Putative Historical Supernova Pa 30
Yi-xuan Shao, Ping Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Yang Chen, Qin Han, Di Li, Xiang-Dong Li, Jian-Bin Weng, Yong Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15792

Absence of Radio Emission Reveals an Exceptionally Weak Explosion of the Putative Historical Supernova Pa 30
We present the first deep radio continuum observations of Pa 30, a nebula hosting a unique optical source driven by an ultrafast outflow with a velocity of 16,000 km s$^{-1}$. The nebula was proposed to be the remnant of a white dwarf merger that occurred in 1181CE. We report no detection of the radio diffuse emission from Pa 30 or radio emission from the central source, setting $3σ$ upper limit flux densities of $0.84\,\rm mJy$ and $0.29\,\rm mJy$ at 1.5 GHz and 6 GHz, respectively, for Pa 30…

Artillery shell exploded prematurely over California freeway during marines celebration;
Shrapnel fragments rained on vehicles parked on Interstate 5 including highway patrol and JD Vance’s detail
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/…

Drone explodes in Poland 40km from Warsaw, Russia suspected
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/20/poland-drone-explosion-warsaw-russia/

Cowboy Roundup: Offensive explosion likely vs Bears, Dak Prescott gets praise https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-offensive-explosion-likely-bears-dak-prescott-gets-praise

Möglicherweise Militärdrohne in Polen abgestürzt
Im Osten Polens ist nach Einschätzung der Behörden offenbar eine Militärdrohne in ein Maisfeld gestürzt. In der rund 100 Kilometer südöstlich von Warschau gelegenen Ortschaft Osiny ereignete sich in der Nacht zum Mittwoch eine Explosion, wie die Polizei mitteilte. Opfer gab es demnach nicht, doch in nahe gelegenen Gebäuden wurden Fenster beschädigt. Nach Angaben der Staatsanwal…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Litauen bietet Truppen zur Friedenssicherung an ++
Litauen würde Soldaten und Ausrüstung zu einer möglichen Friedensmission in die Ukraine schicken - das sagte Präsident Nauseda in einem Interview. In der Ostukraine sind durch russischen Beschuss offenbar drei Menschen getötet worden.

"…Another attempt was thwarted last year when…Rampinis threatened to blow…house up, Zaia said."
"Tito said…eviction…carefully planned. '…reaction was so violent…it was hard to predict,'…prosecutor said."
Hard to predict people who threatened to blow up house might...do it?

3 Italian carabinieri killed in apparently deliberate farmhouse explosion
Authorities have reported that three carabinieri officers were killed and 13 others injured in an explosion near Verona, Italy, on Tuesday. The blast occurred during an eviction. Two brothers and a sister have been detained in connection with the incident. Verona’s carabinieri commander described the explosion as intentional, triggered by a gas tank. This was the second eviction attempt after a previous threat by the siblings to blow up the house. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and Defense Mi…

"In a blog post announcing Sora, OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman suggested that the app is like “ChatGPT for creativity” and could radically transform the arts in a Cambrian explosion-type moment. In my two weeks on the app, at times I found it entertaining. But mostly it was brain rot: hypnotizing and mindless."
--- SAMANTHA EDWARDSONLINE CULTURE REPORTER
in a nutshell it's all bullshit...

Effect of transient shell formation on Shock-induced atomization of an evaporating nanofluid droplet
Gautham Vadlamudi, Bal Krishan, Akarsh Choudhary, Saptarshi Basu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14733

Effect of transient shell formation on Shock-induced atomization of an evaporating nanofluid droplet
This study investigates the shock-induced atomisation dynamics of an acoustically levitated TM-10 nanofluid droplet subjected to a coaxially propagating blast wave and subsequent compressible vortex ring, generated using a compact wire-explosion shock source. The blast wave imposes a sharp velocity discontinuity, followed by a decaying flow field and a vortex-dominated interaction that drives droplet disintegration. Laser-induced heating promotes evaporation, increasing nanoparticle concentra…

One person has died and two are believed to be unaccounted for
after an explosion at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, officials said.
An Allegheny county emergency services spokesperson, Kasey Reigner, said multiple other people were treated for injuries.
“It felt like thunder,” Zachary Buday, a construction worker near the scene, told WTAE-TV.
“Shook the scaffold, shook my chest, and shook the building,
and then when we saw the dark smoke comi…

CeeDee Lamb proven right over George Pickens' Cowboys explosion https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-proven-right-over-george-pickens-cowboys-explosion/fa55c5d53e561bc…

REfugEEs From Beyond – Dadacore Insane Explosion
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/10/06/refugees-from-beyond-dadacore-insane-explosion/
@…

Agentic AI promises a swift revolution for cybersecurity defenders, with one expert calling it a "Cambrian explosion" and another likening it to "the fastest train ever made."
But it's a technology still in its infancy, and other experts caution CISOs to take it slow until the kinks can be worked out.
Check out my latest CSO piece on agentic AI for more details. Thanks to Jimmy Mesta of RAD Security, Andres Riancho and Hillai Ben-Sasson of Wiz, Ben Seri of…

Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution — with asterisks
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm.

Railway explosion in Russia's Oryol Oblast kills 2 National Guard officers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/railway-explosion-in-russias-oryol.html

People left trapped under rubble after explosion at Pennsylvania steel mill (George Stockburger/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5446456-people-left-trapped-under-rubble-after-explosion-at-pennsylvania-steel-mill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p73#a250811p73

Studie: Explosion eines Schwarzen Lochs viel häufiger als angenommen
Direkt nach dem Urknall entstandene Schwarze Löcher könnten viel häufiger explodieren als angenommen. Das meint eine Forschungsgruppe und verspricht sich viel.

Constraints on the progenitor and explosion of SN 2024ggi in harmony with pre-explosion detection and hydrodynamic simulations
Amar Aryan, Erin Higgins, Matt Nicholl, Ting-Wan Chen, Yu-Hsuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10573

Constraints on the progenitor and explosion of SN 2024ggi in harmony with pre-explosion detection and hydrodynamic simulations
Supernova (SN) 2024ggi is a nearby Type II SN discovered by ATLAS, showing early flash-ionization features. The pre-explosion images reveal a red supergiant (RSG) progenitor with an initial mass of 10-17 M$_\odot$. In the present work, we perform detailed hydrodynamic modeling to refine and put robust constraints on the progenitor and explosion parameters of SN 2024ggi. Among the progenitor models in our study, the pre-SN properties of the 11 M$_{\odot}$ match the pre-explosion detected progeni…

Explosion in Munitionsfabrik: 5 Tote und rund 100 Verletzte
Bei einer schweren Explosion und einem Großbrand in einer Rüstungsfabrik sind in der russischen Region Rjasan mindestens fünf Menschen getötet worden. Mehr als 100 weitere Menschen seien verletzt worden, teilte Gouverneur Pawel Malkow bei Telegram mit. Er selbst sprach lediglich von einem Brand in einem Betrieb, russische Staatsmedien berichteten allerdings, dass es …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump gegen NATO-Sicherheitsgarantien für Ukraine ++
Auf dem Weg zum Treffen mit Russlands Präsident Putin hat sich US-Präsident Trump gegen Sicherheitsgarantien der NATO für die Ukraine ausgesprochen. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj appellierte an Trump: "Wir zählen auf Amerika."

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi II: NIRSpec Spectroscopy and CO Modeling at 285 and 385 Days Past the Explosion
T. Mera, C. Ashall, P. Hoeflich, K. Medler, M. Shahbandeh, C. R. Burns, E. Baron, J. M. DerKacy, E. Fereidouni, C. M. Pfeffer, S. Shiber, P. J. Brown, A. Burrow, D. . A. Coulter, M. Engesser, L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, O. Fox, L. Galbany, M. Guolo, J. T. Hinkle, W. B. Hoogendam, E. Y. Hsiao, M E. Huber, T. de Jaeger, D. O. Jones, S. Kumar, J. Lu, P. A. Mazzali, N. Morrell, M. …

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi II: NIRSpec Spectroscopy and CO Modeling at 285 and 385 Days Past the Explosion
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRSpec 1.7--5.5 micron observations of SN~2024ggi at +285.51 and +385.27 days post-explosion. The late-time nebular spectra are dominated by emission lines from various ionization states of H, Ca, Ar, C, Mg, Ni, Co, and Fe. We also detect strong CO emission in both the first overtone and fundamental vibrational bands. Most atomic features exhibit asymmetric line profiles, indicating an aspherical explosion. Using observed fluxes combined with non-LT…

Durch Gas ausgelöst - Madrid: Viele Verletzte nach Explosion in Café #News #Nachrichten

💥 Trump’s EPA Hid Risks at the Steel Plant That Just Exploded
#workers

Trump’s EPA Hid Risks at the Steel Plant That Just Exploded
The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion on Monday had a history of chemical accidents. It was one of hundreds of chemical facilities whose risks were hidden from the public after lobbying by the chemical industry.

One-dimensional blast waves in a rarefied polyatomic gas with large bulk viscosity based on rational extended thermodynamics
Shigeru Taniguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15329 h…

One-dimensional blast waves in a rarefied polyatomic gas with large bulk viscosity based on rational extended thermodynamics
The one-dimensional blast waves in a rarefied polyatomic gas with large bulk viscosity are studied based on rational extended thermodynamics (RET) with six independent fields: mass density, velocity, (equilibrium) pressure, and dynamic pressure. First, by using the method of Lie group theory, we derive a similarity solution of blast waves induced by an intense point explosion. We discuss the deviation from the well-known Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor solution due to the dynamic pressure. Second, we …

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
PANIC IN #BASHKORTOSTAN: MASSIVE EXPLOSION, GUNPOWDER SMELL EVERYWHERE Vlog 1200: War in #Ukraine
Powerful

Inspire or Predict? Exploring New Paradigms in Assisting Classical Planners with Large Language Models
Wenkai Yu, Jianhang Tang, Yang Zhang, Shanjiang Tang, Kebing Jin, Hankz Hankui Zhuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11524

Inspire or Predict? Exploring New Paradigms in Assisting Classical Planners with Large Language Models
Addressing large-scale planning problems has become one of the central challenges in the planning community, deriving from the state-space explosion caused by growing objects and actions. Recently, researchers have explored the effectiveness of leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate helpful actions and states to prune the search space. However, prior works have largely overlooked integrating LLMs with domain-specific knowledge to ensure valid plans. In this paper, we propose a nove…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion:
🎵 Bellbottoms
#TheJonSpencerBluesExplosion
https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/track/bellbottoms
https://open.spotify.com/track/6NJQpFNkDCMaRBogIi9sOI

Er ist der Kanzler aller Deutschen, aber (aus rassistischer Sicht) und als Parteivorsitzender möchte er die ganzen Migranten nicht mehr sehen.

Ship explosion in Baltimore near the Key Bridge
#ship #explosion #MD #Baltimore

What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) (@mercoglianos.bsky.social)
MV W Sapphire, outbound from Baltimore near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, suffered an explosion in its forward hold. The ship has been escorted off Fort Howard and fire and @USCG vessels are on scene. W Sapphire is a fully loaded bulk carrier sailing to Mauritius.

SN 2024hpj: a perspective on SN 2009ip-like events
I. Salmaso, A. Pastorello, E. Borsato, S. Benetti, M. T. Botticella, Y. -Z. Cai, N. Elias-Rosa, A. Farina, M. Fraser, L. Galbany, M. Gonz\'alez-Ba\~nuelos, C. P. Guti\'errez, P. Lundqvist, T. Kangas, T. L. Killestein, T. Kravtsov, K. Matilainen, A. Morales-Garoffolo, A. Mura, G. Pignata, A. Reguitti, T. M. Reynolds, S. Smartt, S. Srivastav, L. Tartaglia, G. Valerin, Z. -Y. Wang

SN 2024hpj: a perspective on SN 2009ip-like events
Supernovae (SNe) IIn are terminal explosions of massive stars that are surrounded by a dense circumstellar medium (CSM). Among SNe IIn, a notable subset is the SNe 2009ip-like, which exhibit an initial, fainter peak attributed to stellar variability in the late evolutionary stages, followed by a brighter peak, interpreted as the SN explosion itself. We analyse the spectrophotometric evolution of SN 2024hpj, a SN IIn with signs of precursor activity. Comparing it with similar objects in the lite…

A warehouse full of goods, a gas plant, a fertilizer plant - what's to say these aren't related?
Officials are still investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania steel plant explosion that killed 2 | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/officials-are-still-investigating-the-cause-of-a-pennsylvania-steel-plant-explosion-that-killed-2

Joint Classification of Haze and Dust Events Using Factorial Hidden Markov Model Framework
Tianhao Zhang, Yixin Zhang, Liang Guo, Xiaoqiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15661

Joint Classification of Haze and Dust Events Using Factorial Hidden Markov Model Framework
Haze and dust pollution events have significant adverse impacts on human health and ecosystems. Their formation-impact interactions are complex, creating substantial modeling and computational challenges for joint classification. To address the state-space explosion faced by conventional Hidden Markov Models in multivariate dynamic settings, this study develops a classification framework based on the Factorial Hidden Markov Model. The framework assumes statistical independence across multiple l…

Gouverneur: Zwei Tote bei Explosion auf Bahnstrecke in Russland
Bei einer Explosion auf einer Bahnstrecke im Westen Russlands sind nach Behördenangaben zwei Menschen getötet worden. Ein Sprengsatz sei während einer Gleis-Inspektion in der Region Orjol detoniert, schrieb Gouverneur Andrej Klytschkow im Onlinedienst Telegram. "Leider wurden zwei Menschen getötet und einer verletzt." Er machte keine Angaben zur Identität der Tod…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland meldet Test von Hyperschall-Rakete ++
Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben eine Hyperschall-Rakete erfolgreich getestet. Nach einem ukrainischen Drohnenangriff ist nach russischen Angaben in einer großen Raffinerie ein Brand ausgebrochen.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 3: [At the sound of explosion] Is that the bonding ceremony?
[Image on the view screen of the empty cell. There is a large hole where the explosive detonated.]
ULTRA 3: We must find them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/552 B7B4

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Studie: Schwarze Löcher explodieren womöglich viel häufiger als angenommen

Converting IEC 61131-3 LD into SFC Using Large Language Model: Dataset and Testing
Yimin Zhang, Mario de Sousa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12593 https://arx…

Converting IEC 61131-3 LD into SFC Using Large Language Model: Dataset and Testing
In the domain of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming, converting a Ladder Diagram (LD) into a Sequential Function Chart (SFC) is an inherently challenging problem, primarily due to the lack of domain-specific knowledge and the issue of state explosion in existing algorithms. However, the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - especially Large Language Model (LLM) - offers a promising new approach. Despite this potential, data-driven approaches in this field have been …

Another Cowboys' offensive explosion is likely in Chicago https://insidethestar.com/another-cowboys-offensive-explosion-is-likely-in-chicago

Discovery of Jet–Bubble–Disk Interaction - Jet Feedback on a #ProtoplanetaryDisk Via an Expanding Bubble in WSB 52: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add47e -> Baby Star Sets off Explosion, Gets Caught in Blast: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2025/20250805-alma.html

A Comprehensive Review of AI Agents: Transforming Possibilities in Technology and Beyond
Xiaodong Qu, Andrews Damoah, Joshua Sherwood, Peiyan Liu, Christian Shun Jin, Lulu Chen, Minjie Shen, Nawwaf Aleisa, Zeyuan Hou, Chenyu Zhang, Lifu Gao, Yanshu Li, Qikai Yang, Qun Wang, Cristabelle De Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11957

A Comprehensive Review of AI Agents: Transforming Possibilities in Technology and Beyond
Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have rapidly evolved from specialized, rule-based programs to versatile, learning-driven autonomous systems capable of perception, reasoning, and action in complex environments. The explosion of data, advances in deep learning, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent coordination have accelerated this transformation. Yet, designing and deploying unified AI agents that seamlessly integrate cognition, planning, and interaction remains a grand challenge. In this…

Was that guy on the left previously caught in some kind of explosion? Presumably, to his right hand side??
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115196393717837936

Buried the actual lede of the story... so here it is:
""Seeing these salmon runs exceeding estimated pre-season numbers by four and five times is truly a reflection of the hard work we have done to remove fish farms on the approach to the Fraser River," Werk pointed out. "
As a former deckhand on a family commercial salmon troller in 1990s, before the explosion of fish farms on the coast, I think there are more factors than just the closing of open net fish farms that has supported the return of this year's huge run of sockeye. It could be ocean temperatures in the North Pacific rebounding (down), it could be conditions on the Fraser River and the spawning streams... many things.
But do i think fish farms were decimating the health of fish migrating to and from the Fraser River and contributing to low return runs?
You're damn right I do.
#bcPoli #FishFarms #Salmon #Sockeye

Explosion derails Russian military cargo train on St. Petersburg–Pskov line: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/explosion-derails-russian-military-cargo.html

SPIDER: Scalable Probabilistic Inference for Differential Earthquake Relocation
Zachary E. Ross, John D. Wilding, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Aitaro Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12117

SPIDER: Scalable Probabilistic Inference for Differential Earthquake Relocation
Seismicity catalogs are larger than ever due to an explosion of techniques for enhanced earthquake detection and an abundance of high-quality datasets. Bayesian inference is a popular framework for locating earthquakes due to its ability to propagate and quantify uncertainty into the inversion results, but traditional methods do not scale well to high-dimensional parameter spaces, making them unsuitable for double-difference relocation where the number of parameters can reach the millions. Here…

wtf? https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-jX9GlHNnTEud--xneaXXZg:a:3807498986-/0

NYCHA building partially collapses in Bronx due to explosion, city officials report no injuries
A public housing tower partially collapsed in the South Bronx on Wednesday morning due to an explosion, forcing residents to evacuate, New York City …

„Es ist weg“ - Neue Bilder zeigen Ausmaß der Explosion in den USA #News #Nachrichten

Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter
A. Gkini, C. Fransson, R. Lunnan, S. Schulze, J. Sollerman K. Tsalapatas, N. Sarin, M. Nicholl, C. Angus, U. Burgaz, S. J. Brennan, T. -W. Chen, A. Gal-Yam, A. Gangopadhyay, Y. Hu, M. M. Kasliwal, R. R. Laher, P. J. Pessi, B. Rusholme, E. Russeil, A. Singh, C. Skoglund, R. Smith, B. van Baal, S. L. West, L. Yan

Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter
We present X-shooter observations of a sample of 21 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), spanning a redshift range of z=0.13-0.95, aimed at searching for shells of circumstellar material (CSM). Specifically, we focus on identifying broad Mg II absorption features that are blueshifted by several thousand kilometers per second and have previously been interpreted as arising from resonance line scattering of the SLSN continuum by rapidly expanding CSM ejected shortly before explosion.…

Heute vor 6 Jahren: Am 8. August 2019 ereignete sich der #Nuklearunfall von #Njonoksa. Eine nukleare Kettenreaktion führte zu Explosionen, mehreren Toten und Schwerverletzten sowie freigesetzter Radioaktivität. Ursache war ein fehlgeschlagener Test eines Raketenantriebs.

They make explosives. Not to be conspiracy-theorist, but we keep having manufacturing plants blow up...
‘Multiple people’ dead after explosion at Tennessee plant as crews search rubble for missing workers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/explosion-bucksnort-tennessee-plant-death-toll-b2843396.html

Gresford Colliery documents head for Wrexham in first for The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/gresford-colliery-documents-head-for-wrexham-in-first-for-the-national-archives/…

Gresford Colliery documents head for Wrexham in first for The National Archives - The National Archives
The National Archives is displaying records related to the Gresford Colliery disaster in Wrexham Library to mark the 91st anniversary on 22 September 2025. Two hundred and sixty-six men and boys died after an underground explosion and devastating fire. Most of the casualties of the disaster in 1934 lived in Wrexham and the surrounding villages. […]

Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shivam Garg, Harkirat Behl, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09726

Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning
Large language models trained with reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards tend to trade accuracy for length--inflating response lengths to achieve gains in accuracy. While longer answers may be warranted for harder problems, many tokens are merely "filler": repetitive, verbose text that makes no real progress. We introduce GFPO (Group Filtered Policy Optimization), which curbs this length explosion by sampling larger groups per problem during training and filtering responses to train on…

DOSA: Differentiable Model-Based One-Loop Search for DNN Accelerators
Charles Hong, Qijing Huang, Grace Dinh, Mahesh Subedar, Yakun Sophia Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10702 …

DOSA: Differentiable Model-Based One-Loop Search for DNN Accelerators
In the hardware design space exploration process, it is critical to optimize both hardware parameters and algorithm-to-hardware mappings. Previous work has largely approached this simultaneous optimization problem by separately exploring the hardware design space and the mapspace - both individually large and highly nonconvex spaces - independently. The resulting combinatorial explosion has created significant difficulties for optimizers. In this paper, we introduce DOSA, which consists of di…

Tyreik Taylor had barely wiped the oil from his hands when the sky behind him lit up.
Fifteen minutes after the 26-year-old drove home, a roar thundered from the plant where he helped mix chemicals for motor oil and had just punched out.
Fire consumed the air, the collapsing metal groaning and liquids hissing as they escaped into the surrounding water, soil, and air.

Black Louisiana Community Coated in Toxic Fallout After Explosion at Oil Plant
“We need help over here and we’re not getting it,” said a resident of the city where 90 percent of kids live in poverty.

„Laut der Nebenklägervertreterin war der Angeklagte in mehreren Chatgruppen aktiv, die Mitgliederzahlen bewegten sich demnach zwischen 50.000 und 150.000.“
150.000.
Wie kann es sein, dass es dazu keine Explosion der Aufmerksamkeit gibt?
Wie viele Opfer?
https://www.

Estonia Blames Russian Jamming for Explosion of Ukrainian Drone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/estonia-blames-russian-jamming-for-explosion-of-ukrainian-drone

Exploiting correlations in multi-coincidence Coulomb explosion patterns for differentiating molecular structures using machine learning
Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Loren Greenman, Joshua Stallbaumer, Artem Rudenko, Daniel Rolles, Huynh Van Sa Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03776

Exploiting correlations in multi-coincidence Coulomb explosion patterns for differentiating molecular structures using machine learning
Coulomb explosion imaging (CEI) is a powerful technique for capturing the real-time motion of individual atoms during ultrafast photochemical reactions. CEI generates high-dimensional data with naturally embedded correlations that allow mapping the coordinated motion of nuclei in molecules. This enables reliable separation of competing reaction pathways and makes this approach uniquely suited for characterizing weak reaction channels. However, rich information contained in experimental CEI patt…

'Powerful explosion' rocks Russian oil pipeline supplying Moscow, intelligence source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/powerful-explosion-rocks-russian-oil.html

Symbolic Execution in Practice: A Survey of Applications in Vulnerability, Malware, Firmware, and Protocol Analysis
Joshua Bailey, Charles Nicholas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06643

Symbolic Execution in Practice: A Survey of Applications in Vulnerability, Malware, Firmware, and Protocol Analysis
Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that allows for the systematic exploration of all program paths. Path explosion, where the number of states to track becomes unwieldy, is one of the biggest challenges hindering symbolic execution's practical application. To combat this, researchers have employed various strategies to enable symbolic execution on complex software systems. This paper introduces a systematic taxonomy of these strategies, categorizing them into two primar…

Navier-Stokes Equations with Fractional Dissipation and Associated Doubly Stochastic Yule Cascades
Radu Dascaliuc, Tuan N. Pham, Enrique Thomann, Edward C. Waymire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10806

Navier-Stokes Equations with Fractional Dissipation and Associated Doubly Stochastic Yule Cascades
Parametric regions are identified in terms of the spatial dimension $d$ and the power $γ$ of the Laplacian that separate explosive from non-explosive regimes for the self-similar doubly stochastic Yule cascades (DSY) naturally associated with the deterministic fractional Navier-Stokes equations (FNSE) on $\mathbb{R}^d$ in the scaling-supercritical setting. Explosion and/or geometric properties of the DSY, are then used to establish non-uniqueness, local existence, and finite-time blow-up resul…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion:
🎵 Chick Habbit
#NowPlaying #TheHillbillyMoonExplosion
https://open.spotify.com/track/6K2n4PbLXzpIDJR4wKGbCE

Damn. #RIP Jim Lovell. One of my heroes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/science/space/james-a-lovell-j…

Astronaut James Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13, Dies at 97
He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”

From Grounding to Skolemization: A Logic-Constrained Vector Symbolic Architecture for Complex Query Answering
Yuyin Lu, Hegang Chen, Yanghui Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10837

From Grounding to Skolemization: A Logic-Constrained Vector Symbolic Architecture for Complex Query Answering
Complex Query Answering (CQA) over incomplete Knowledge Graphs (KGs), typically formalized as reasoning with Existential First-Order predicate logic with one free variable (EFO$_1$), faces a fundamental trade-off between logical soundness and computational efficiency. This work establishes the Grounding-Skolemization dichotomy for systematically analyzing CQA methods through the lens of formal logic. While Grounding-based methods inherently suffer from combinatorial explosion, most Skolemizatio…

Abundance Pattern Fitting with Bayesian Inference: Constraining First Stars' Properties and Their Explosion Mechanism with Extremely Metal-poor Stars
Ruizheng Jiang, Haining Li, Gang Zhao, Qianfan Xing, Wenyu Xin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05712

Abundance Pattern Fitting with Bayesian Inference: Constraining First Stars' Properties and Their Explosion Mechanism with Extremely Metal-poor Stars
The abundance patterns of extremely metal-poor stars preserve a fossil record of the Universe's earliest chemical enrichment by the supernova explosions from the evolution of first generation of stars, also referred to as Population III (or Pop III). By applying Bayesian inference to the analysis of abundance patterns of these ancient stars, this study presents a systematic investigation into the properties and explosion mechanism of Pop III stars. We apply NLTE corrections to enhance the relia…

Replaced article(s) found for math.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/math.GN/new
[1/1]:
- Mean dimension explosion of induced homeomorphisms
Gabriel Lacerda, Sergio Roma\~na

Q&A with Jack Davenport, co-founder of podcast producer Goalhanger, which has 70M streams per month and ~55 staff, on the cost of shifting to video, and more (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/podcasts/uks-bigge…

UK's biggest podcast producer Goalhanger is now a video company
Goalhanger's Jack Davenport explains how adding video to all podcasts in the last year has led to an explosion in audience and revenue

I need some chaotic / brain explosion music. Any suggestions?
That stuff calms me for some reason. 😹

The New Status Qvo? SN 2021qvo is Another 2003fg-like Type Ia Supernova with a Rising Light-Curve Bump
I. A. Abreu Paniagua, W. B. Hoogendam, D. O. Jones, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, C. Gall, J. O'Brien, K. Taggart, C. R. Angus, K. Auchettl, D. A. Coulter, K. W. Davis, T. de Boer, A. Do, H. Gao, L. Izzo, C. -C. Lin, T. B. Lowe, Z. Lai, R. Kaur, M. Y. Kong, A. Rest, M. R. Siebert, S. K. Yadavalli, Y. Zenati, Q. Wang

The New Status Qvo? SN 2021qvo is Another 2003fg-like Type Ia Supernova with a Rising Light-Curve Bump
In recent years, multiple Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been observed with "bumps" in their rising light curves shortly after explosion. Here, we present SN 2021qvo: a SN Ia that exhibits a clear early bump in photometry obtained by the Young Supernova Experiment. Photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2021qvo show that it has a broader light curve, higher peak luminosity, shallower Si II $λ$5972 pseudo-equivalent width, and lower ejecta velocities than normal SNe Ia, which are al…

💫 Machine learning outpaces supercomputers for simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-machine-outpaces-supercomputers-simulating-galaxy.html

Machine learning outpaces supercomputers for simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion
Researchers have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion. This approach could help us understand the origins of our own galaxy, particularly the elements essential for life in the Milky Way.

3 bold predictions for Cowboys vs Jets, including another George Pickens explosion https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/3-bold-predictions-for-cowboys-vs-jets-including-another-george-pickens-explosion

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
CALLY: Jenna's gone with Blake.
AVON: So let's get on with it. [Explosion. Avon is unconscious]
CALLY: He's out cold. We must get him into a capsule fast. And then you can put Orac in with him. Come on, quick!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/14

The Day-long, Repeating #GRB 250702B - A Unique Extragalactic Transient: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf8e1 -> Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2514/

High-Resolution Simulations of the Interaction Between the Nova/Supernova Ejecta and the Accretion Disk
Axel S. Lechuga, Domingo Garc\'ia-Senz, Jordi Jos\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11352

High-Resolution Simulations of the Interaction Between the Nova/Supernova Ejecta and the Accretion Disk
Many nova and type Ia supernova explosion scenarios involve accretion disks. However, direct numerical simulations of these explosive phenomena have barely addressed the question of the impact of ejecta-disk collision on the midterm evolution of such explosions. This is particularly critical for a better understanding of classical and recurrent novae, where each nova cycle depends on the imprint left by the precedent explosion. In this work, we describe and analyze a set of high-resolution simu…

Due to the federal government shutdown and lack of funding
Deep investigations will not happen in the wake of the October 2025 explosion and fire at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, California.
Scholars of chemical disasters believe this absence
– and the potential for the board to be eliminated entirely under the proposed 2026 federal budget
– raises the risk of more, and more serious, chemical disasters,
not just in the U.S. but around the world

Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations
Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what happened at a Chevron refinery in California in October 2025.

SN 2024aecx: Double-Peaked Light Curves and Rapid Evolution in a Nearby Type IIb Supernova
Qiang Xi, Ning-Chen Sun, David Aguado, Ismael P'erez-Fournon, Fr'ed'erick Poidevin, Junjie Jin, Yiming Mao, Zexi Niu, Beichuan Wang, Yu Zhang, Kuntal Misra, Divyanshu Janghel, Justyn R. Maund, Amit Kumar, Samaporn Tinyanont, Liang-Duan Liu, Yu-Hao Zhang, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Monalisa Dubey, Zhen Guo, Anshika Gupta, Min He, Dhruv Jain, Debalina Kar, Wenxiong Li, Joe D. Lyman, Haiyang Mu, …

SN 2024aecx: Double-Peaked Light Curves and Rapid Evolution in a Nearby Type IIb Supernova
SN 2024aecx is a nearby ($\sim$11 Mpc) Type IIb SN discovered within $\sim$1 d after explosion. In this paper we report high-cadence photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations, conducted from as early as 0.27 d post discovery out to the nebular phase at 158.4 d. We analyze the environment of SN 2024aecx and derive a new distance, metallicity and host extinction. The light curve exhibits a hot and luminous shock-cooling peak at the first few days, followed by a main peak with very rapi…

Scaling Up without Fading Out: Goal-Aware Sparse GNN for RL-based Generalized Planning
Sangwoo Jeon, Juchul Shin, Gyeong-Tae Kim, YeonJe Cho, Seongwoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10747

Scaling Up without Fading Out: Goal-Aware Sparse GNN for RL-based Generalized Planning
Generalized planning using deep reinforcement learning (RL) combined with graph neural networks (GNNs) has shown promising results in various symbolic planning domains described by PDDL. However, existing approaches typically represent planning states as fully connected graphs, leading to a combinatorial explosion in edge information and substantial sparsity as problem scales grow, especially evident in large grid-based environments. This dense representation results in diluted node-level infor…

The explosion jets of the core-collapse supernova remnant Circinus X-1
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel), Muhammad Akashi (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10843 https:/…

The explosion jets of the core-collapse supernova remnant Circinus X-1
We propose that the recently analyzed opposite rings in the Circinus X-1 (Cir X-1) core collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant resulted from a pair of opposite jets at the final phases of the jet-driven explosion process of the progenitor of Cir X-1. We point out the similarity of the rings in the Cir X-1 CCSN remnant to a ring in the Cygnus Loop CCSN remnant. While the X-ray binary system Cir X-1 actively launches jets, no such activity exists in the Cygnus Loop. In both CCSN remnants, we attribute…

Verdacht auf Sabotage: Russland meldet zwei Zugentgleisungen
An zwei unterschiedlichen Orten der westrussischen Region Leningrad sind zwei Züge entgleist. Die Vorfälle ereigneten sich am frühen Morgen nur wenige Stunden nach der Explosion eines Sprengsatzes auf einer Bahnstrecke in der westlichen Region Oriol, bei der am Samstagabend drei Menschen ums Leben gekommen waren.
Nach der Entgleisung einer Lokomotive in der Nähe de…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine meldet Bahn-Sabotage in Südrussland ++
Der ukrainische Militärgeheimdienst hat Medienberichten zufolge mehrere Bahnlinien in Russland mit Sabotageakten zeitweise außer Betrieb gesetzt. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben eine Hyperschall-Rakete erfolgreich getestet.

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 12. August 1953 testete die #Sowjetunion mit RDS-6s ihre erste thermonukleare Waffe. Die Explosion der #Wasserstoffbombe hatte eine Sprengkraft von 400 Kilotonnen TNT, wobei der Großteil der Energie aus der Spaltung von Uran-238 stammte.

Signature of the explosion mechanism of Type-Ia SNe in substructures of the remnant: the case of Tycho's SNR
Soham Mandal, N\'uria Torres-Alb\`a, Carles Badenes, Shazrene Mohamed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10752

Signature of the explosion mechanism of Type-Ia SNe in substructures of the remnant: the case of Tycho's SNR
Type-Ia supernovae (SNe), or runaway thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs (WDs), play a critical role in the chemical evolution of galaxies, and are important cosmological distance indicators due to their 'standardizable' lightcurves. Growing evidence, however, suggests greater diversity in their observed lightcurves (and spectra) than thought previously. This is usually attributed to a variety of WD explosion mechanisms and progenitor system properties, but a direct link between the explos…

With the rise of easily created deepfake videos, scammers and others on social media are increasingly exploiting the likenesses of broadcast journalists (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scammers-are-usin…

Scammers are using video deepfakes of journalists to peddle products online
Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them?

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Charles Perrow. It made a big impression on me when I first came across it but when I put it in my backpack for a trip to Binghamton I recalled that the versions of many incidents in it aren’t the best you can find in the literature.
Not sure how well it aged: flying has gotten safer and people don’t write about maritime accidents like they did in the 70’s
#books

Ukraine bekennt sich zu Sabotage russischer Bahnlinien
Der ukrainische Militärgeheimdienst HUR hat Medienberichten zufolge mehrere Bahnlinien in Russland mit Sabotageakten zeitweise außer Betrieb gesetzt. Die Behörde stehe sowohl hinter einer Explosion an einer Bahnstrecke im südrussischen Gebiet Orjol als auch hinter dem Entgleisen einer Lok und eines Güterzugs im Nordwesten Russlands, berichten ukrainische Medien unter Beru…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine meldet Bahn-Sabotage in Südrussland ++
Der ukrainische Militärgeheimdienst hat Medienberichten zufolge mehrere Bahnlinien in Russland mit Sabotageakten zeitweise außer Betrieb gesetzt. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben eine Hyperschall-Rakete erfolgreich getestet.

Buildup, Explosion, and Untwisting of a Solar Active Region Jet Observed with Solar Orbiter, IRIS, and SDO
Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore, Sanjiv K. Tiwari, David Berghmans, Andrei Zhukov, Marilena Mierla, Cis Verbeeck, Koen Stegen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05439

Buildup, Explosion, and Untwisting of a Solar Active Region Jet Observed with Solar Orbiter, IRIS, and SDO
We present detailed analysis of an active region coronal jet accompanying a minifilament eruption that is fully captured and well-resolved in high spatial resolution 174A coronal images from Solar Orbiters Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). The active region jet is simultaneously observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). An erupting minifilament is rooted at the edge of an active region where mixed-polarity magnetic flux is present. Mi…

How the Cowboys Overcame Giants' Offensive Explosion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrlKA1Q6SsM

Explosion in Kiew gemeldet
Russland hat nach Angaben der Militärverwaltung Kiews einen Raketenangriff auf die ukrainische Hauptstadt gestartet, wie die Militärverwaltung über ihren Telegram-Kanal mitteilte. Zeugen berichten der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters von einer lauten Explosion, die die Stadt erschüttert habe.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj kündigt Austausch von 1.200 Kriegsgefangenen an ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat den Austausch weiterer Kriegsgefangener angekündigt. In der russischen Stadt Sotschi ist durch herabgestürzte Teile einer abgeschossenen Drohne ein Öllager in Brand geraten.

The explosion in crypto treasury companies is making experts in and outside of crypto nervous.
A crypto CEO described the “huge” risk based on assets that have “almost nothing backing [them]”.
Crypto analysts at Galaxy have compared them to the 1920s investment trust collapse.
https://

A Panchromatic View of Late-time Shock Power in the Type II Supernova 2023ixf
W. V. Jacobson-Gal\'an, L. Dessart, C. D. Kilpatrick, P. J. Patel, K. Auchettl, S. Tinyanont, R. Margutti, V. V. Dwarkadas, K. A. Bostroem, R. Chornock, R. J. Foley, H. Abunemeh, T. Ahumada, P. Arunachalam, M. J. Bustamante-Rosell, D. A. Coulter, C. Gall, H. Gao, X. Guo, D. O. Jones, J. Hjorth, M. Kaewmookda, M. M. Kasliwal, R. Kaur, C. Larison, N. LeBaron, H. -Y. Miao, G. Narayan, Y. -C. Pan, S. H. Park,…

A Panchromatic View of Late-time Shock Power in the Type II Supernova 2023ixf
We present multi-wavelength observations of the type II supernova (SN II) 2023ixf during its first two years of evolution. We combine ground-based optical/NIR spectroscopy with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) far- and near-ultraviolet spectroscopy and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) near- and mid-infrared photometry and spectroscopy to create spectral energy distributions of SN 2023ixf at +374 and +620 days post-explosion, covering a wavelength range of ~0.1-30 $μ$m. The multi-band light curve …

Dance to Demise -- How Massive Stars May Form Dense Circumstellar Shells Before Explosion
Sutirtha Sengupta, Das Sujit, Arkaprabha Sarangi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04497 https…

Dance to Demise -- How Massive Stars May Form Dense Circumstellar Shells Before Explosion
We investigate the evolution of red supergiant (RSG) progenitors of core-collapse (CC) supernovae (SNe) with initial masses between 12-20 Msun focusing on effects of enhanced mass loss due to pulsation-driven instabilities in their envelopes and subsequent dynamical ejections during advanced stages of nuclear burning. Using time-dependent mass loss rates from detailed MESA stellar evolution models, including prescriptions for both pulsation-driven superwinds and shock-induced ejections, we cons…

Attributing the supernova remnant RCW 89 to the jittering jets explosion mechanism
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04723 https://a…

Attributing the supernova remnant RCW 89 to the jittering jets explosion mechanism
I examine recent radio observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 89 and identify a point-symmetric morphology composed of two main symmetry axes. I attribute this morphology to a jet-driven explosion in the framework of the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM). To reach this conclusion, I argue that the MSH 15-52 nebula associated with the pulsar PSR B1509-58, the X-ray hand-like-shaped nebula, and RCW 89 are two separate core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnants that interact with eac…

Donbas on the brink of an explosion: Moscow alarmed by rising protest sentiment in occupied areas amid water shortages: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/donbas-on-the-brink-of.html

The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star
Charles D. Kilpatrick, Aswin Suresh, Kyle W. Davis, Maria R. Drout, Ryan J. Foley, Alexander Gagliano, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galan, Ravjit Kaur, Kirsty Taggart, Jason Vazquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star
We present follow-up imaging and spectroscopy and pre-explosion imaging of supernova (SN) 2025pht located in NGC 1637 at 12 Mpc. Our spectroscopy shows that SN 2025pht is a Type II SN with broad lines of hydrogen and with minimal line-of-sight extinction inferred from Na I D absorption. NGC 1637 was the target of several epochs of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) imaging covering the site of SN 2025pht from 31 to 0.7 yr prior to discovery. Using a follow-up HST…

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi I: Interpretation and Model Comparison of the Type II Supernova 2024ggi at 55 days Past Explosion
E. Baron, C. Ashall, J. M. DerKacy, P. Hoeflich, K. Medler, M. Shahbandeh, E. Fereidouni, C. M. Pfeffer, T. Mera, W. B. Hoogendam, S. Shiber, K. Auchettl, P. J. Brown, C. R. Burns, A. Burrow, D. . A. Coulter, M. Engesser, G. Folatelli, O. Fox, L. Galbany, M. Guolo, J. T. Hinkle, Mark E. Huber, E. Y. Hsiao, T. de Jaeger, D. O. Jones, S. Kumar, J. Lu, P. A. Ma…

JWST Observations of SN 2024ggi I: Interpretation and Model Comparison of the Type II Supernova 2024ggi at 55 days Past Explosion
We present panchromatic 0.4-21 microns observations of the nearby (~7.2 Mpc) Type II supernova 2024ggi, obtained during the plateau phase at ~55 d past explosion. Our dataset includes JWST spectra spanning 1.7-14 microns, MIR imaging at 7.7 and 21 microns, and near-simultaneous ground-based optical and NIR spectra covering 0.32-1.8 microns. The NIR and MIR spectral features of SN 2024ggi are dominated by HI emission. We present line IDs and a toy PHOENIX/1D model that reproduces the observation…

The first radio view of a type Ibn supernova in SN 2023fyq: Understanding the mass-loss history in the last decade before the explosion
Raphael Baer-Way, A. J. Nayana, Wynn Jacobson-Galan, Poonam Chandra, Maryam Modjaz, Samantha C. Wu, Daichi Tsuna, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock, Craig Pellegrino, Yize Dong, Maria R. Drout, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Dan Milisavljevic, Daniel Patnaude, Candice Stauffer

The first radio view of a type Ibn supernova in SN 2023fyq: Understanding the mass-loss history in the last decade before the explosion
Supernovae that interact with hydrogen-poor, helium-rich circumstellar material (CSM), known as Type Ibn supernovae (SNe Ibn), present a unique opportunity to probe mass-loss processes in massive stars. In this work, we report the first radio detection of a SN Ibn, SN 2023fyq, and characterize the mass-loss history of its stellar progenitor using the radio and X-ray observations obtained over 18 months post-explosion. We find that the radio emission from 58--185 days is best modeled by synchrot…

Why explosion of NFL QB contracts has drastically altered how teams build rosters https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6576049/2025/08/28/nfl-qb-contracts-mahomes-allen-prescott-burrow/

Ostukraine: Zwei Männer sterben bei Drohnenexplosion
Im ostukrainischen Gebiet Charkiw sind zwei Männer durch die Explosion einer gefundenen russischen Drohne getötet worden. Behördenangaben zufolge fanden die Zivilisten die ferngesteuerte Drohne und brachten sie in ein Haus in der Siedlung Kosatscha Lopan. Als sie versuchten, den Sprengsatz auseinanderzunehmen, detonierte er. Zwei weitere Männer wurden durch Splitter verletz…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ "Koalition der Willigen" beginnt mit Beratungen ++
Die sogenannte "Koalition der Willigen" berät erneut über mögliche Sicherheitsgarantien für die Ukraine. Ein Thema, bei dem Russland aus Sicht von NATO-Chef Rutte nichts mitzureden hat. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Old Galactic novae in the eROSITA All Sky Survey
Gloria Sala, Frank Haberl, Axel Schwope, Dus\'an Tub\'in-Arenas, Elif \c{S}afak, Chandreyee Maitra, Jochen Greiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08944

Old Galactic novae in the eROSITA All Sky Survey
Nova explosions occur on accreting white dwarfs. A thermonuclear runaway in the H-rich accreted envelope causes its ejection without destroying the white dwarf, and an increase in the luminosity by several magnitudes. Accretion is re-established some time after the explosion. The explosion of the nova itself is expected to affect the mass-transfer rate from the secondary and the accretion rate, but these effects have been little explored observationally. Most novae are observed only in outburst…

Primordial Black Hole Triggered Type Ia Supernovae I: Impact on Explosion Dynamics and Light Curves
Shing-Chi Leung, Seth Walther, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Alexander Kusenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21041

Primordial Black Hole Triggered Type Ia Supernovae I: Impact on Explosion Dynamics and Light Curves
Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the asteroid-mass window are compelling dark matter candidates, made plausible by the existence of black holes and by the variety of mechanisms of their production in the early universe. If a PBH falls into a white dwarf (WD), the strong tidal forces can generate enough heat to trigger a thermonuclear runaway explosion, depending on the WD mass and the PBH orbital parameters. In this work, we investigate the WD explosion triggered by the passage of PBH. We perfo…

iPTF16geu through the lens of thermonuclear explosion models
Ana Sainz de Murieta, Mark R. Magee, Tian Li, Thomas E. Collett, Joel Johansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01160 htt…

iPTF16geu through the lens of thermonuclear explosion models
The magnification resulting from strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool to add new constraints to the cosmic evolution of supernova progenitors by enabling the study of distant supernovae that would otherwise not be observable. iPTF16geu is the most well-observed gravitationally lensed supernova (glSN) to date. At a redshift of $z = 0.409$ and magnified by a factor of $\sim$68, extensive photometric and spectroscopic observations have been obtained. The explosion mechanism producing th…

Ultraviolet radiation and neutrinos: two messengers from CCSNe in the CSM scenario
Silvia Gagliardini, Simone Dall'Osso, Dafne Guetta, Angela Zegarelli, Silvia Celli, Antonio Capone, Irene Di Palma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11916

Ultraviolet radiation and neutrinos: two messengers from CCSNe in the CSM scenario
Massive stars (>8 $M_{\odot}$) often undergo intense mass loss through winds or eruptive events in the final stages of their evolution, leading to the formation of a dense circumstellar medium (CSM). This material, expelled months to years before core collapse, shapes the pre-explosion environment and influences the early supernova (SN) emission. In particular, the interaction of the SN ejecta with the dense CSM can power an extended emission into the UV/optical bands, as seen in a growing frac…

A double-degenerate scenario with a merger to explosion delay time to explain type Ia supernova SN 2020aeuh
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16757

A double-degenerate scenario with a merger to explosion delay time to explain type Ia supernova SN 2020aeuh
I suggest the double-degenerate (DD) scenario with a merger-to-explosion delay (MED) time (the DD-MED scenario) of about 1-2 years to explain the rare properties of the recently analyzed type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2020aeuh. The rare properties are the SN Ia ejecta interacting with a carbon-oxygen (CO)-rich circumstellar material (CSM) at approximately 50 days post-explosion. In this DD-MED scenario, two massive CO white dwarfs (WDs), masses of M1=1.1Mo and M2=1, merge to leave a rapidly rotat…

Tycho supernova exploded inside a planetary nebula (SNIP)
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12674…

Tycho supernova exploded inside a planetary nebula (SNIP)
I examine recent observations of the type Ia supernova remnant (SNR Ia) Tycho and conclude that Tycho is an SN Ia inside a planetary nebula (SNIP). The observations reveal two opposite protrusions, termed ears, projected on the main shell of Tycho. The pair of ear structures resembles that of the SNRs Ia Kepler, SNR G299-2.9, and SNR G1.9+0.3, which earlier studies considered as SNIPs. The requirement that the explosion occurs within hundreds of thousands of years after the formation of the pla…

SN 2022acko and the Properties of its Red Supergiant Progenitor: Direct Detection, Light Curves, and Nebular Spectroscopy
Gabriel Teixeira, Charlie D. Kilpatrick, Cl\'ecio R. Bom, Andr\'e Santos, Phelipe Darc, Katie Auchettl, \'Alvaro \'Alvarez-Candal, Ryan J. Foley, Pedro K. Humire, Anthony L. Piro, Cesar Rojas-Bravo, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, Antonio Kanaan, Tiago Ribeiro, William Schoenell

SN 2022acko and the Properties of its Red Supergiant Progenitor: Direct Detection, Light Curves, and Nebular Spectroscopy
We present ultraviolet, optical, and infrared observations of the Type II-P supernova SN 2022acko in NGC 1300, located at a distance of 19.0 +/- 2.9 Mpc. Our dataset spans 1-350 days post-explosion in photometry, complemented by late-time optical spectroscopy covering 200-600 days, and includes deep pre-explosion imaging. We use this extensive multiwavelength dataset for both direct and indirect constraints on the progenitor system. Using the early-time photometry and shock-cooling models, we i…