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GW241011 and GW241110 - Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin #BlackHole Coalescences: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54 -> Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/colliding-black-holes-might-have-formed-from-earlier-cosmic-smashups and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251028 and https://www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-black-hole-mergers-reveal-secrets-of-cosmic-evolution/ - two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution -> Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/28/not-their-first-rodeo-gravitational-wave-detectors-spot-merging-black-holes-that-have-merged-before/

No wonder Russia's getting Cubans to fight in Ukraine...
In Cuba, the Revolution has broken its promises: Hunger and homelessness are on the rise | International | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-28/in-cuba-the-revolution-has-broken-its-promises-hunger-and-homelessness-are-on-the-rise.html

Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
 
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Unveiling ignis fatuus - #Microlightning between microbubbles: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2521255122 -> New theory may at last explain a swamp’s ghostly will-o’-the-wisps: https://www.snexplores.org/article/swamp-gas-methane-will-o-wisp-chemistry = https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spark-will-o-the-wisps - methane bubbles spark tiny zaps of electricity that may ignite cool flames of the gas. (Has nothing - obvious, at least - to do with astronomy ... but fun nonetheless.)

The 2025 state of the #climate report - a planet on the brink: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627 -> Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/state-of-the-climate-2025-earths-vital-signs-worsen-science-shows-options-for-livable-future -> Our Planet’s Vital Signs are Crashing: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2025-state-of-the-climate-report-our-planets-vital-signs-are-crashing

GaLactic and extragalactic all-sky Murchison Widefield Array survey eXtended (GLEAM-X) - Galactic plane: #MilkyWay reveals our Galaxy in unprecedented radio colour: https://www.icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-plane/ - astronomers from ICRAR have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled -> New images reveal the Milky Way’s stunning galactic plane in more detail than ever before: https://theconversation.com/new-images-reveal-the-milky-ways-stunning-galactic-plane-in-more-detail-than-ever-before-264688

Just listened to an interesting online talk (#Balloon Facility (https://www.tifr.res.in/bf/) - here are the slides about astronomical observations they do; see also https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04877 for a 2021 review paper about this work and the mentioned papers https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2013/08/aa21614-13/aa21614-13.html ("Large-scale mapping of the massive star-forming region RCW38 in the [CII] and PAH emission") and https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/07/aa35739-19/aa35739-19.html ("[CII] emission properties of the massive star-forming region RCW 36 in a filamentary molecular cloud").

The Molecular Inventory of TMC-1 with GOTHAM Observations: #MolecularCloud

Planning Considerations Related to Contamination Control for the Return and Analysis of Martian Samples: #MarsSampleReturnMission