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LaBeouf was pictured getting into yet another bar fight last month, just weeks after he was hit with three counts of battery for his Mardi Gras brawl.

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Justin Fairfax couldn't find a job -- or even get legal clients after facing sex assault claims that derailed in political career while Virginia lieutenant governor, a pal told The Post Thursday.

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Scientist Suggests Dark Matter Could Be Black Holes From A Different Universe

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

While the scientific establishment has spent decades chasing invisible particles that never quite show up, a leading cosmologist has dropped a theory that turns everything on its head: dark matter isn’t some exotic new particle. It could be ancient black holes that survived from an entirely different universe.

This idea, laid out by Professor Enrique Gaztanaga of the University of Portsmouth, doesn’t just tackle one cosmic puzzle. It offers a clean fix for the Big Bang’s thorniest problems and lines up with fresh observations that have astronomers scrambling.

Gaztanaga argues the elusive substance that makes up roughly 27 per cent of the universe’s mass may actually be “relic” black holes formed in a previous collapsing phase of the cosmos.

What is dark matter? Elusive substance could be made of black holes from a different UNIVERSE, scientist claims https://t.co/GdjXzdJ1Ee

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 15, 2026

“The idea is that dark matter may not be a new particle, but instead a population of black holes formed in a previous collapsing phase and bounce of the Universe,” Professor Gaztanaga says.

He rejects the standard singularity model where everything explodes from an infinitely dense point that breaks physics. Instead, he proposes a “bouncing” universe.

“The Big Bang corresponds to a bounce from a previous collapsing phase, rather than the absolute beginning of everything,” the Professor Gaztanaga further noted, adding “So it is the start of the expansion we observe, but not necessarily the beginning of time itself.”

In this picture, black holes from the collapsing galaxies of that earlier universe survived the bounce and now drift through our cosmos, exerting gravity without emitting light.

We may have been wrong about wormholes.

Recent research challenges the popular notion that wormholes—hypothetical tunnels through spacetime enabling interstellar travel—are directly linked to the original Einstein-Rosen bridge. In 1935, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen… pic.twitter.com/ipm9RlXl54

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 16, 2026

“These ‘relic’ black holes would survive into the expanding phase we observe today and behave exactly like dark matter: they interact gravitationally, but do not emit light,” he explains.

The theory also neatly accounts for the James Webb Space Telescope’s baffling discovery of bright red dots—rapidly growing black holes—mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. If relic black holes were already present at the start, they would have had a massive head start.

A study of the fascinating galaxy system nicknamed "The Stingray" suggests that mysterious little red dots could be a phase in the evolution of galaxies powered by actively feeding black holes, rather than a distinct class of objects. https://t.co/FfKPDQVxl7

— Live Science (@LiveScience) April 9, 2026

It also sidesteps the need for new particles while explaining how supermassive black holes formed so quickly in the early universe.

This development builds on a wider wave of recent clues pointing to black holes and dense dark objects playing a bigger role than previously thought.

Recently, astronomers highlighted a massive invisible object that tore through the Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream, leaving a jagged gap and gravitational disturbances without any light, heat, or radiation. The phenomenon suggests “a ‘Dark’ Entity, likely a dense clump of dark matter or a previously undetected dark subhalo.”

BREAKING?: Astronomers have identified a massive, invisible object that recently tore through the Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream, leaving a jagged gap and creating significant gravitational disturbances without emitting light, heat, or radiation.

The Phenomenon suggests a… pic.twitter.com/cp2FQIrhTj

— Night Sky Today (@NightSkyToday) April 8, 2026

This phenomenon has been witnessed before.

Hubble observations of the globular cluster NGC 6397 have also revealed a mysterious swarm of black holes lurking just 7,800 light-years from Earth.

NEWS?: A mysterious swarm of black holes has been found lurking just 7,800 light-years away from Earth. pic.twitter.com/R8rH9m1ouF

— For all Curious (@fascinatingonX) April 10, 2026

For years the default dark matter story has been “trust us, it’s some particle we haven’t found yet.” Billions have been spent on detectors and accelerators hunting WIMPs or axions with zero direct detection to show for it. Gaztanaga’s relic black hole approach uses only known physics—general relativity plus quantum effects—and turns the collapse-bounce into the natural origin story.

Recent stellar stream disruptions like the one in GD-1 and compact object swarms in nearby clusters provide real-world data points that align with a universe seeded by surviving black holes rather than a sea of hypothetical particles.

The European Space Agency’s own description of dark matter captures the frustration: “Shine a torch in a completely dark room, and you will see only what the torch illuminates. That does not mean that the room around you does not exist.”

Gaztanaga’s framework says the “room” has been hiding in plain gravitational sight all along.

Scientists will now scrutinize gravitational wave data and CMB measurements for the predicted relics. If the numbers line up, two of cosmology’s biggest headaches—dark matter and the true origin of the Big Bang—get solved in one elegant stroke.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 04/16/2026 - 17:45

Since swooping in to Islamabad to head peace talks with Tehran last weekend, Vance has been "spotted" at local restaurants, bazaars, mosques and tourist destinations across the capital city — with a little help from AI.

Page Six exclusively reported the news of the "RHONY" spinoff back in January.

Page Six exclusively reported the news of the "RHONY" spinoff back in January.

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Bankrupted Spirit Airlines Faces Imminent Liquidation

Bankrupt Spirit Airlines "could liquidate as early as this week," according to a new CNBC report. The troubled carrier, stuck in years of turbulence, has failed to emerge from its second bankruptcy in less than a year and is now being squeezed by soaring jet fuel costs.

NEW: Spirit Airlines could liquidate and shut down as soon as this week, @lesliejosephs of @CNBC reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.”

Latest round of chatter about a deeply troubled airline … but rising fuel prices could be its death knell.…

— Kyle Potter (@kpottermn) April 16, 2026

When the budget carrier would begin the liquidation process was not immediately clear to CNBC's sources, but the report comes just after an overnight Bloomberg story warned about the "risk of liquidation" due to the latest surge in jet fuel prices.

The airline had been trying to downsize its jet footprint and focus on popular seasonal routes, while labor unions made concessions to help keep operations afloat. But Spirit's financial problems have been mounting for a while.

In 2024, JetBlue terminated its $3.8 billion merger deal with the carrier, citing low odds of regulatory approval after a Biden-era federal court blocked the deal over antitrust concerns.

Both CNBC and Bloomberg sources said the liquidation was likely to happen this week; today is Thursday, and the news may break as early as Friday.

The airline, which is still operating as of late Thursday morning, was expected to exit bankruptcy this summer, but that now appears increasingly unlikely. The carrier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August of last year, the second time in less than a year.

Airlines have increasingly warned of a spike in jet fuel costs and the financial impacts stemming from the Hormuz chokepoint disruption. Multiple carriers, including United Airlines, have warned about hiking baggage fees and ticket prices to offset jet fuel costs.

Meanwhile, UBS analysts are searching for a possible bottom in airline stocks (read the report). 

The best-hedged airline amid the jet fuel turmoil has been Delta Air Lines, the only U.S. carrier to operate a refinery.

Earlier this week, Reuters reported that United CEO Scott Kirby pitched a tie-up with American Airlines during a recent conversation with President Trump. The potential merger would create a super airline to strengthen U.S. competitiveness globally.

Tyler Durden Thu, 04/16/2026 - 17:25

LIV Golf’s Mexico City event isn’t off to a hot start. 

Spencer Steer was plunked by a 93 MPH fastball at the outset of the Reds' matchup with the Giants on Thursday, and the beanball certainly appeared to be a response to the slugger's behavior a night prior.

"Shortly after 11:30 a.m., a man was quickly detained by uniformed US Secret Service police officers after jumping over a construction bollard near the Treasury Building on the northeast side of the complex,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. 

Founder and CEO Lyndie Benson tells Page Six Style the duchess "actually discovered us herself and purchased her first outfit."

Founder and CEO Lyndie Benson tells Page Six Style the duchess "actually discovered us herself and purchased her first outfit."