Every Batman villain represents a specific vice (or, if you want to be less generous, a specific gimmick). The Joker is chaos. Two-Face is the corruption of justice. Catwoman is greed. Riddler is... puzzles. And the Penguin, traditionally, has represented the wealthy face of organized crime.

Often sporting a top hat, cane, and morning suit, the Penguin looks like an evil Monopoly Man and often acts like it too, exploiting the loopholes of capitalism to build his criminal empire. He’s a character who works well on a comic book page or in more fantastical screen adaptations of Batman. But in Matt Reeves’ grounded, noir-inspired 2022 film The Batman, the Penguin required a bit of a makeover.

Enter Colin Farrell’s grasping, low-level mob enforcer, Oswald Cobb, a crass, rowdy, and low-class slimeball — basically, everything the comic book version of the Penguin was not. His signature “penguin waddle” came from a genetic disability, his beak-like facial features from brutal scars earned over a lifetime of hard mobster living.

Introduced as crime boss Carmine Falcone’s (John Turturro) lieutenant, Oz was looked down on by everyone around him, including Robert Pattinson’s Batman. But that’s where The Penguin, the HBO spinoff from Lauren LeFranc that bridges the gap between The Batman and its upcoming sequel, finds its dramatic heft: in the psyche of a dangerously ambitious loser who is tired of his status as the perpetual No. 2.

Astronomers recently captured two supermassive black holes in a hundred-million-year death spiral toward an epic collision.

The two black holes are near the center of a galaxy shaped by the aftermath of a recent merger between two smaller galaxies, and their fate offers a preview of what might happen to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our own galaxy, in a few million years. Harvard University astrophysicist Anna Falcão and her colleagues published their work in The Astrophysical Journal.