@king_saturn: It looks like pretty much your entire defense of Darkseid's durability revolves around this idea of Superman being a PIS machine, but this is just wrong. First of all, if anyone actually deserves the title of "Mr PIS himself," it would be Karate Kid. But even with more serious characters, I would put Spiderman's PIS (which has allowed him to fight and even beat guys like Thor, Firelord, and Juggernaut) or Captain America's ("peak" human who can stand against Michael Korvac, one-shot the Enchantress, hurt Loki, cause Beyonder-empowered Doom to collapse in a sobbing heap) over Superman's.
I don't even really see where your argument comes from. Superman is a very strong character, and is meant to be, but there are many, many instances demonstrating other characters in DC possessing equal or nearly equal strength, such as Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Martian Manhunter, Orion, Lobo, Doomsday, and various others (not to mention all the other Kryptonians and Marvels running around).
Moreoever, we have seen many characters survive at least a hit or two from Superman (pretty much all of the characters I listed above have at least fought him for an extended time, if not actually defeated him), and he has certainly lost his share of fights.
Sorry, but your claims of excessive PIS for Superman are themselves highly exaggerated. Yes, stupid things like holding a black hole have happened, but that is more absurd because it is physically nonsense, rather than because of it's mass (which, as imperator showed, can easily and likely be far less than just the planet earth). And he was assisted by John Stewart; so are all the honor guard Green Lanterns PIS machines now too? And everyone else who's ever been shown to have comparable strength to Superman?
You're cherry picking one example of something ridiculous from a character with thousands of appearances, but that doesn't prove anything; just about every character at that level or beyond has feats that are just plain stupid lying around somewhere (Classic Drax once ripped the core of a star out with his hands; just think about how nonsensical that is for a second). The writers didn't even get the basics of the black hole right; the JL used magnetic fields to contain it, but EM fields don't affect the force of gravity, so everything about the situation was wrong just on a conceptual level. Also, even before they contained it, Batman was exposed to just as much of it as everyone else, and he was perfectly fine. Of course, Batman is a pretty good contender for "Mr. PIS Himself" as well, but then what are we supposed to do, claim that anyone who can hurt Batman is more powerful than being within 10 ft of a black hole?
All right, I'm kind of belaboring the point, but you're going to need more than one weak example to make an argument that everything Superman does is PIS, which means you also need a lot more than Superman's PIS to defend Darkseid's durability.
Of course, this is ignoring the fact that actually using PIS as a sound argument in the first place is completely unsound logic to begin with.
As far as Darkseid's offensive abilities go, well, for one, it is actually irrelevant as to whether or not he could take a hit from Odin, since it doesn't help his durability. However, Darkseid never used the Omega Beams on the Antimonitor, so there goes half your argument. The Spectre example is also pretty weak; it was one of the weakest versions of the Spectre, and he was basically very slightly irritated by the Omega Beams before easily overpowering and obliterating Darkseid. On the other hand, Darkseid has used the Omega Beams on Superman many times without being able to put him down, and they have also failed to kill Doomsday and have been blocked by Mary Marvel.
Darkseid has feats to compete with guys in the Superman-tier and Herald-tier, but Odin is way above that, and Darkseid's feats don't go nearly far enough to close the gap.
Alright, just did the math for the black hole that Superman was holding. Assuming average dust length of 4 micrometers (smallest average I found was .5 micrometers, largest was 254, so I went with for. nice and small, but not crushingly so), then the black hole has a mass of 2.697*10^21 kg. Which, assuming that Superman has a mass of 107 kg (assuming Dc.wikia is correct), means the black hole was exerting a force of 8.56*10^16 N. How does that force compare to other things?
I remember once doing the math as well and came up with something similar. It is worth noting that the mass you arrived at is around 2,000 times less than the earth, let alone multiple solar masses. It is also worth noting that Superman only held it for a brief time before John Stewart backed him up.
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