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Universe, Volume 11, Issue 11

November 2025 - 27 articles

Cover Story: Modified gravity with nonminimal curvature–matter couplings offers an alternative to dark energy and dark matter by introducing direct matter–geometry interactions. These generate an extra force and energy–momentum non-conservation, enabling gravitationally induced particle creation. Using the scalar–tensor form and open-system thermodynamics, we derive creation rates, pressure, and entropy production, showing that negative creation pressure can drive late-time de Sitter expansion while respecting the generalized second law. We also outline kinetic and quantum approaches, including Boltzmann and generalized Klein–Gordon frameworks. Such couplings yield a unified, testable link between high-energy gravity, cosmology, and quantum effects, consistent with local constraints. View this paper
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Articles (27)

  • Review
  • Open Access
292 Views
26 Pages

19 November 2025

We review the recent progress in Monte Carlo simulations of dense two-color QCD (QC2D), focusing on the phase diagram, the equation of state, and the sound velocity in the low-temperature regime. In three-color QCD at finite density, especially at lo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
505 Views
30 Pages

Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST): A Powerful Explorer of Exotic Pulsars

  • Cheng-Min Zhang,
  • Zhi-Yao Yang,
  • Xiang-Han Cui,
  • De-Hua Wang,
  • Yi-Yan Yang,
  • Xin-Ji Wu,
  • Jian-Wei Zhang,
  • Shu Ma,
  • Yun-Gang Zhou and
  • Lin-Yan Jiang

14 November 2025

Located in southern China, the five-hundred-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST) is the world’s most sensitive radio telescope, especially for pulsar observation. Since its commissioning in 2016 and full operation in 2020, it has det...

  • Review
  • Open Access
230 Views
46 Pages

13 November 2025

The Two-Measure Theory (TMT) has been developing since 1998 and has yielded a number of highly interesting results, including those not realized in traditional field theory models. The most important advantage of TMT as an alternative theory is that,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
461 Views
31 Pages

Asymptotic Freedom and Vacuum Polarization Determine the Astrophysical End State of Relativistic Gravitational Collapse: Quark–Gluon Plasma Star Instead of Black Hole

  • Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta,
  • Fabián H. Zuluaga Giraldo,
  • Wilmer D. Alfonso Pardo,
  • Edgardo Marbello Santrich,
  • Guillermo U. Avendaño Franco and
  • Rafael Fragozo Larrazabal

12 November 2025

A general relativistic model of an astrophysical hypermassive extremely magnetized ultra-compact self-bound quark–gluon plasma (QGP: ALICE/LHC) object that is supported against its ultimate gravitational implosion by the simultaneous action of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Views
15 Pages

Gravitational Lensing by Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi Wormholes in a Friedmann Universe

  • Kirill A. Bronnikov,
  • Valeria A. Ishkaeva and
  • Sergey V. Sushkov

12 November 2025

The Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi (LTB) solution to the Einstein equations describes the dynamics of a self-gravitating spherically symmetric dust cloud with an arbitrary density profile and any distribution of initial velocities, encoded i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
188 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2025

BL Lacertae is not only archetypical of an entire class of jet-dominated active galactic nuclei, blazars, but also one of the most active and rapidly changing objects in this class. In the fall of 2024 (September–November), BL Lacertae underwen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
212 Views
9 Pages

9 November 2025

We use model-independent luminosity distances of 186 HII galaxy observations to address the circularity problem in the Amati relation for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). For this purpose, we used Artificial Neural Network-based interpolation to reconstruct...

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