Tootfinder

Growth of Light Seed #BlackHoles in the Early Universe: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14395 -> The growth of light seed black holes in the early Universe: https://telescoper.blog/2026/01/21/the-growth-of-light-seed-black-holes-in-the-early-universe/

Universe : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1976
https://archive.org/details/universe_20170130

An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter: #DarkMatter on Universe: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-reveals-new-details-about-dark-matters-influence-on-universe/

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

Steven Universe: Save the Light - Charity Speedrun w/ Rebecca Sugar and Chris Graham @ MAGFest 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBSV2aSzfAg

spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @…'s epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s #jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even d…

30 years ago the #HubbleDeepField was published: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-deepest-view-of-the-universe-unveils-bewildering-galaxies-across-billions-of-years/ - other Hubble deep fields followed, and now ALMA and Webb have investigated one of them ... JWST Spectroscopic Census of ALMA Faint Submillimeter Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18149

„Masters of the Universe“: Erster Trailer gibt Vorschau auf den neuen He-Man
Im Sommer soll die zweite Realverfilmung der Geschichte um He-Man in die Kinos kommen – und erfolgreicher sein als der Vorgänger. Jetzt gibt es einen Trailer.

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

It has come to my attention that some people here still believe/fall for the idea that something like "a family" is somehow fundamental to this universe.
The whole concept of "a family" is a rather recent fad: it's only about 4000-5000y old and is a pretty weird idea that is exclusive to the human species.
It was devised to establish/enforce the patriarchy and to so suppress and control you.
Some 2000y later, it was adopted by the church, and cast i…

Love Stories
Hosted by Tiffany Dunk, this podcast swaps cliché romcom endings for real, messy, magnetic connections told by unforgettable voices from The Australian Women's Weekly universe...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/love-sto…

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

Beyond #RingsOfPower, I’d totally missed further developments in the #LotR franchise. Andy Serkis, apparently, is heading “The Hunt for Gollum,” due out at the end of next year, set between the two trilogy #movies and f…

New 'Lord of the Rings' Movie From Stephen Colbert in Development
Stephen Colbert and his son are developing a brand new film in the "Lord of the Rings" universe.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116289803951438216
There are things in this part of the known universe that I consider essential to even begin to grasp the full scope of what it means to be human. 🦄🎉

Masses
#iTeachPhysics
#Science
https://bsky.app/profile/hookean.bsky.social/post/3md4…

... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent
observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of
years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary
descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but
do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither
flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some
things with confidence! Evolution…

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

Alan's Universe creator Alan Chikin Chow, whose YouTube channel has 99M subscribers, is working on a Netflix show, joining other major YouTubers at the streamer (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/youtuber-alan-chikin-chow-s…

Hit YouTuber Alan Chikin Chow Sets Scripted K-Pop Series At Netflix
Chow, who created YouTube series Alan’s Universe, whose channel has over 99M subscribers, is behind a new scripted series set in the world of K-Pop.

"The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice." If _we_ bend it.
#periodicreminder

Engulfed in the riveting realm of scientific exploration, I find true joy. The perpetual quest to decipher the universe's enigmas offers unparalleled intrigue. Indeed, reality often outshines fiction in its marvels. 🔬✨📖

Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated "commercially safe" images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/adobe-firefly-foundry-ai-caa-wme-1236692649/…

Adobe’s Firefly Foundry AI Offering Draws Support From Talent Agencies, Filmmakers, VFX Houses & Others
Adobe is rolling out a new AI offering backed by major talent agencies, filmmakers and visual effects houses focused on preserving human creativity.

This was a nice surprise. Many thanks to Will Wonks / Igloo Mag for the fascinating and encouraging review of ‘Habitations’! =)
“…Across the album, Logan unites bold experimentation with deep emotional resonance, moving seamlessly between complexity and clarity, chaos and calm. Each track offers a universe full of spectral sound, each transition a bridge between moments of wonder and enduring reflection. From the vibrant energy of its opening stutters to the meditative, elemental quiet…

Brickey talks about the removal of the First Order merch shop near the TIE Echelon & the retrofit of Oga's Cantina to be part of the original Star Wars universe, E4-6.
▶️ Disney Just Admitted a BIG Galaxy’s Edge Failure
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BMOc9dAB9Vw&amp…

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

How fast is the universe actually expanding? Ripples in spacetime could finally solve 'Hubble tension' | Space
How fast is the universe actually expanding? Ripples in spacetime could finally solve 'Hubble tension' | Space https://www.

I wonder what it's like in the alternate universe where the Cars called themselves the Bikes instead.

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Eric’s Trip:
🎵 Universe
#EricsTrip
https://ericstrip.bandcamp.com/track/universe
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fojTxT7VDHPbFOuduzUkJ

The universe does not simply exist in time -- time is something the universe continuously writes into itself https://theconversation.com/is-time-a-fundamental-part-of-reality-a-quiet-revolution-in-physics-suggests-not-273841

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

The bot trimmed one little piece of the joke: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe was a sequel, and obviously needed to start with a recap, so the full quote is:
❝The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.❞

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

@… lol in a parallal universe l could blame the font but l simply misread your post after reading other people moaning about AI.
In any case, thanks for making me think of my top ten tunes of all day.
@…

Kitty Cinematic Universe :3

Trump's "Board of Peace" logo is clearly just ripping off the United Nations logo.

Universe is another word for Cosmos, hence Universix as the name for the bootc Cosmic image I've cooked today. And it worked out very well. More on that tomorrow. Back home an updated MangoWC on Slackware waited for me! Great diversions from a shiite day at the races.
#cosmic_de #slackware

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Róisín Murphy:
🎵 The Universe (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #RóisínMurphy
https://jamiemangotwin.bandcamp.com/track/roisin-murphy-the-universe
https://open.spotify.com/track/1CiYa75tIz6zwMffJFQDGb

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116097390631893972
Holy moly! I want to move to this universe. Can I? Pretty please?

Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated "commercially safe" images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/adobe-firefly-foundry-ai-caa-wme-1236692649/…

Adobe’s Firefly Foundry AI Offering Draws Support From Talent Agencies, Filmmakers, VFX Houses & Others
Adobe is rolling out a new AI offering backed by major talent agencies, filmmakers and visual effects houses focused on preserving human creativity.

in my headcanon (and by extension the @… universe) ipos was an electronics giant back in the day but sometime around the mid-late 90s they just became one of those brands that gets put on generic products to sell them at a significant markup, while still occasionally actually making a product themselves here and there. kinda like RCA in the real world

Tonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…

Time's Second Arrow
Join Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time"—a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be.

The #StarTrek universe has a number of peculiar characters. And for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question we'll look at a rather special one.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will re…

To whom it may concern:
I will not go peacefully into the bleak and cruel MAGA future...
I will do the hard things, I will support my neighbors, I will stand up for the weak and vulnerable, I will learn new ways to live, I will persist in being ungovernable by vile, greedy monsters, rapists, pedophiles, parasites, thieves, idiots, and con-men.
I resist, with all my being, and with all the love and compassion in the Universe.
Thank you for your attention to this matter…

Josh Allen is the center of Buffalo's universe, from the end zone to the produce aisle https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6943171/2026/01/08/josh-allen-buffalo-bills-playoffs-super-bowl/

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

I now believe that “Shrinking” (🍎TV) and “The Drew Carey Show” are based in the same universe and that Kate from DCS moved to the west coast and started going by the name “Liz”
😁

HOLISMOKES XIX - SN 2025wny at z=2, the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova / XX - Lens models of binary lens galaxies with five images of Supernova Winny: #supernova: https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/measuring-the-expansion-of-the-universe-with-cosmic-fireworks - measuring the expansion of the universe with cosmic fireworks.

Picturing an alternate universe where Microsoft forked arch linux and renamed the package manager mspacman, making no other changes

A tl;dr version might be, that no physical system can exist outside the universe, which for the purpose of measuring it is not finite; therefore no physical system can be simulated with arbitrary accuracy.

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/879652/samsung-ga…

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’
Leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of Samsung’s privacy display in action, while the company teases the tech in a new advert.

I'm not sure what YouTube thinks is going on in my life but I'm now getting inundated with ads for baby diapers, real actual 100% not fake women on some rental/dating app, and baby sling carriers.
The babes are cute.
And too professional.
No chaotic screaming at the universe of horrors.
Don't trust their lies.
#pooptoot #idowanttoholdababythough

The #LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - VII. Third Data Release: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15949 -> Largest Ever Radio Sky Survey Maps the Universe in Unprecedented Detail: https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/largest-ever-radio-sky-survey-maps-the-universe-in-unprecedented-detail (see the ALT text for what the three sample images show).

ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-mars-orbiters-watch-solar-superstorm-hit-the-red-planet

ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.

I don’t know anything about “Wicked” but since it features an Orion I assume it’s part of the Star Trek universe?

TV - whether broadcast or streaming is so filled with murder mystery shows, particularly ones from the UK, that I wonder why those places have not become depopulated.
I mean, why would anyone chose to live in Cabot Cove, Maine? Seems like that must be the murder capital of the universe.

Good Morning #Canada
Everyone knows that Canada's 243,000 km of coastline are the longest in the world. At a pace of about 20 km each day, the stroll would take 33 years. Inside of that long shoreline, did you know that Canada is divided into seven physiographic regions? We're not talking mind altering drugs but instead reference the distinct geological formation that defines the landscape. The Canadian Shield, with the oldest exposed rocks on the planet, dominates the centre of the country with stable immovable bedrock. Kinda like Toronto being the centre of the universe. Each physiographic region gives that area of our country unique features and scenery that provides us with a seemingly inexhaustible opportunity to explore. I should be writing travel brochures...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Geography
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/physiographic-regions

We go back to the 60s this week for a bit of bluesy rock as our spotlight falls on a track from Python Lee Jackson.
As always we invite you to give it a listen and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it.
Don't forget to follow us for more from our weekly showcase, exploring great tracks from across the universe of #rock and

Python Lee Jackson - In A Broken Dream
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

#ZineMap is an international map connecting zinesters, shops, libraries, and events. https://zinemap.com/

ZineMap - Drop Your Zines, Find Your People
Explore a global map of the zine universe, track your zines, and discover new places to share your work.

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

A reminder, on Martin Luther King Day, that immigration is one of the things that has always made America great. And worth remembering that if the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, it is we who must bend it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XmUp3Ca-kWE

“Each conscious perception is the local registration of the entire state of the universe at any given moment.” - Christoph Cox

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column,
I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer:
exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.
These all deserve deeper dives,
but perhaps black holes deserve one most of all because, technically speaking,
they do provide the deepest dive you can physically take.
They also make very big bangs indeed, with their collisions rapidly releasing almost inco…

How much energy is released when supermassive black holes collide?
The collision of supermassive black holes shakes the entire cosmos, hard

I've been meaning to ask the universe:
Q: Did anyone else think Tech would somehow return in S3 of Star Wars: The Bad Batch?
I never really thought he was gone... not until the end of the series finale when I realized he really wasn't coming back.
#StarWars #BadBatch

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

The oldest Milky Way stars - new constraints on the age of the #Universe and the Hubble constant: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa57038-25/aa57038-25.html -> How old is the Universe? The oldest stars give us a clue: https://www.aip.de/en/news/how-old-is-the-universe/

All objects and some questions | American Journal of Physics | AIP Publishing
> In Fig. 2, we plot all the composite objects in the Universe: protons, atoms, life forms, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, giant voids, and the Universe itself.
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-objects-and-some-questions

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Atmosphere:
🎵 Puppets
#Atmosphere
https://inverseuniversemusic.bandcamp.com/track/atmosphere-puppets-inverse-universe-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3C0QkuBEI8JaHPpFL7BmBA

Universe, n.:
The problem.

There are some rather iconic ships in the #StarTrek universe. And we are going to look at one of these for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply …

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

One of the GREAT original movies created around the "Halo" universe from Microsoft Studios, now FREE to view - all 1hr 31min.
▶️ Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn | FULL MOVIE | Video Game Sci-Fi Action Adventure Microsoft
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZj3Is6Upng&…

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Bright [C II]158 μm Streamers as a Beacon for Giant Galaxy Formation in SPT2349-56 at z = 4.3: #GiantGalaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/forming-massive-galaxies-in-the-early-universe - new radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early Universe.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Atmosphere:
🎵 Puppets
#Atmosphere
https://inverseuniversemusic.bandcamp.com/track/atmosphere-puppets-inverse-universe-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vnk9AsovxewWkXdPLZQEW

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

Improved measurements of the age of JWST #galaxies at z = 6 − 10: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/2/stag089/8426287?login=false -> Do we actually know how old the Universe is? https://astrobites.org/2026/03/05/how_old_is_the_universe/

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

The Stochastic Siren - Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the #HubbleConstant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01997 -> Illinois and UChicago physicists develop a new method to measure the expansion rate of the universe: https://physics.illinois.edu/news/Hubble-tension-expansion-rate-of-universe

MeerKAT discovery of a high-redshift strongly-lensed hydroxyl #gigamaser: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13396 -> MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe: https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/meerkat-discovers-record-breaking-cosmic-laser-halfway-across-the-universe/

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

ALMA and JWST Identification of Faint Dusty Star-forming Galaxies up to z ∼ 8 and Their Connection with Other Galaxy Populations: #galaxies almost 13 billion years old, helping to revise the history of the universe: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/international-team-astronomers-led-umass-amherst-may-have-just-found-one-missing-links

A second-generation star in a relic dwarf galaxy: #Star Discovered Inside Ancient Relic Dwarf Galaxy: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2607/ - the star is the first unambiguous example of chemical enrichment by the first stars in the Universe within a primordial environment.

The penultimate #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBq0KdXU9c about High Redshifts and High Energies dealt e.g. with An Unlensed Barred Spiral Before Cosmic Noon (https://www.newswise.com/articles/pitt-student-finds-familiar-structure-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang and https://www.umass.edu/news/article/astronomers-find-one-oldest-barred-spiral-galaxies-universe), A precessing jet from an active galactic nucleus (https://public.nrao.edu/news/record-breaking-stream-of-super-heated-gas/ and https://keckobservatory.org/vv340a/ and https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ecz5crtdymxrlodycogpt/AB32N_1Bh3pyI2SyzbRGkTs?rlkey=zbyz1muz40y1rh8ierpw1yfok&e=1&st=ebs24tqb&dl=0) and the papers AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole & Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03337 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03372 with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1foKS2AQJlWvI4_ZzUlV8pYfkyAsElzkRQ5yo82VWy4s/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 and https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2026/1/6/cow and https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-telescopes-uncover-invisible-gas-around-record-shattering-cosmic-explosion/).

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Hints of Primordial Magnetic Fields at Recombination and Implications for the Hubble Tension: #HubbleTension and other cosmic mysteries: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-03-13-primordial-magnetic-fields-could-resolve-hubble-tension-and-other-cosmic-mysteries - an international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated rates of the universe’s expansion.

Lyα Intensity Mapping in HETDEX - Galaxy-Lyα Intensity Cross-power Spectrum: #Universe: https://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20260303

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

The Discovery of #LittleRedDots in the Local Universe - Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10659 -> A Black Hole Egg That Forgot to Hatch: https://aasnova.org/2026/01/13/a-black-hole-egg-that-forgot-to-hatch/

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

#LittleRedDots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09900-4 -> Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’: https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2026/01/copenhagen-researchers-make-the-front-page-of-nature-solving-the-mystery-of-the-universes-little-red-dots/

A Cool Earth-sized #Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19870 -> Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth? https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-an-ice-cold-earth/

Bored 'between the years'? Then help yourself to the papers "Primordial black holes within Higgs hybrid metric-Palatini approach", "The Serendipitous Axiodilaton: A Self-Consistent Recombination-Era Solution to the Hubble Tension" and "Ω1Ω2–ΛCDM: A promising phenomenological extension of the standard model of cosmology" all out today - #Universe at an elevated level ... ;-)

A Merger within a Merger - Chandra Pinpoints the Short #GRB230906A in a Peculiar Environment: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a2f -> NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_031026.html / https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2026/nsmerger/ -> How the Most Energetic Explosions in the Universe Are Formed: https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/blog/node/951

The final (8th) #AAS247 presser #Lazuli, described in detail the paper #ArgusArray to the astronomical community: https://carolinastories.unc.edu/developing-the-worlds-largest-sky-survey-telescope/ and https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ and https://www.astronomy.com/science/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-to-fund-space-telescope-three-ground-based-observatories/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/former-ceo-of-google-spearheads-4-next-gen-telescopes-3-on-earth-and-1-in-space and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schmidt-sciences-announces-plan-for-lazuli-a-private-space-telescope/

CosmicWatch - The Desktop #Muon Detector(v3X): https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12111 -> UD physicist’s invention expands our knowledge of the universe, particle physics: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/january/cosmicwatch-particle-detector-spencer-axani-cas/