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Universe

  • Congratulations to Prof. Roger Penrose, Advisory Board member of Universe, for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020.
Universe is a peer-reviewed, open access journal focused on theoretical, experimental, and observational progress in fundamental and applied physics, from circumterrestrial space to cosmological scenarios, and is published monthly online by MDPI.

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We confront two future-singularity dark-energy templates—sudden future singularities (SFSs) and finite scale factor singularities (FSFSs)—with late-time geometric probes and redshift-space distortion growth data. We compute the observable growth fσ8(z) by solving the full linear perturbation system (including the standard fiducial cosmology rescaling of RSD measurements) and build a joint χ2 from Pantheon+SH0ES SNe Ia, H(z), DESI AP-only BAO, and fσ8. Parameter constraints are obtained via grid-based profiling over nuisance parameters and the singularity time location parameter. We compare the viability and goodness of fit of the singularity scenarios to the ΛCDM reference.

3 January 2026

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Analysis of 14 Years of X-Ray Emission from SN 2011DH

  • Elisa J. Gao and
  • Vikram V. Dwarkadas

Ejecta from core-collapse supernovae interact with the circumstellar medium shed by the progenitor star, producing X-ray emission. Previous studies analyzed the X-ray spectrum of the Type IIb supernova SN 2011dh up to ∼500 days after explosion. Long-term monitoring of X-ray emission provides valuable constraints on supernova evolution and progenitor systems, yet such studies remain rare for Type IIb events due to limited data. Here we present the most comprehensive X-ray light curve of SN 2011dh to date, combining all available Chandra and XMM-Newton data with previously published and newly released Swift observations, extending coverage to ∼5100 days. We measure a luminosity decline consistent with LXt0.74±0.04 and infer a mass-loss rate of (1.0 for , or (2.0 for . These estimates agree with earlier results, supporting the interpretation that the X-ray emission has been dominated by an adiabatic reverse shock. The consistency of our late-time results with previous studies demonstrates that SN 2011dh has evolved steadily for nearly 14 years.

3 January 2026

We investigate momentum transport in ferromagnetic–plasmon heterostructures using Keldysh field theory and energy–momentum tensor formalism. A three-layer model reveals that plasmon frequency shifts generate a non-zero expectation value for the xz-component of the energy–momentum tensor Txz through magnon–plasmon coupling. The momentum transport exhibits linear velocity dependence, with temperature behavior transitioning from exponential suppression at low temperatures to linear growth at high temperatures, governed by the magnon energy gap. Spatial oscillations follow patterns within the ferromagnetic layer. This framework provides fundamental insights into quantum momentum transport mechanisms in magnetic systems.

3 January 2026

We investigate the high-energy production of tetraquark-jet systems at the LHC and its forthcoming high-luminosity upgrade. In this review, we examine the leading–power fragmentation of fully heavy tetraquarks (T4Q) in hadronic collisions, highlighting their relevance as novel probes of multiquark dynamics in QCD. Our analysis relies on the hadron–structure–oriented TQ4Q1.1 fragmentation functions, built within a nonrelativistic QCD framework that incorporates both gluon- and heavy-quark-initiated channels. Threshold-consistent DGLAP evolution is performed through the HF-NRevo scheme, enabling a unified treatment of mass thresholds and scale variations. We also provide a systematic discussion of uncertainties arising from color-composite long-distance matrix elements (LDMEs) and from perturbative hard- and fragmentation-scale inputs (H- and F-MHOUs). Phenomenological predictions are obtained using the (sym)Jethad framework at NLL/NLO+ accuracy for semi-inclusive tetraquark-jet production at the LHC and beyond. This review connects the emerging spectroscopy of fully heavy exotics with modern fragmentation-based approaches to hadron structure and high-energy QCD.

2 January 2026

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997