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Stranger than truth - attempt to make black holes illegal...

Attempt to prohibit (from a court in Hawaii) attempts to make a mini black hole at CERN in Europe.
Interesting article in The Economist.
<-- This picture is NOT of a black hole, as you might have guessed, but I couldn't find a picture of strange guys in a courtroom in Hawaii...

Astronomers puzzled by cosmic black hole

Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.

Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life

New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of the chemical elements that make life possible.

Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life

Supermassive black holes about to get much brighter!

Spitzer Space Telescopes show that the vicinities around the black holes could be backing up with excess matter - the black holes just can’t consume it fast enough to clear the space. When this happens, the matter heats up, and releases a tremendous amount of energy.

Some Black Holes May Not Be Black, But Rather 'Naked Singularities'

Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black. Finding such an unmasked form of what physicists term a singularity "would shock the foundation of general relativity."

Scream of Black Hole's Birth Detected Halfway Across the Universe

The incredible amount of energy given off across the entire electromagnetic spectrum during a gamma-ray burst is what Jonathan Grindlay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics calls "the birth pangs of a black hole. This is the scream."

Good news! Black hole won't destroy Earth

Scientists could generate a black hole as often as every second when the world's most powerful particle accelerator comes online in 2007.

Astronomers Devise New Way to Weigh Black Holes

Astronomers can't see black holes. And they definitely can't go out and grab a piece of one to measure its mass.

So how do they weigh them?

Black hole trysts revealed by ultraviolet light

Black holes can be secretive about their past, but now there may be an easy way to tell if a monster black hole was once a pair that got cosy and fused together.

Black Google Portal

This Black Google Portal is easier on your eyes and saves energy. All search results are displayed on google.com with a black background and light text.

Black is the new...Black?

Right now, the colour black, or “Kuro” in Japanese, is surprisingly enjoying widespread popularity in Japan. A trend so strong that we could even find an oh-so-hip black toilet paper.

Colossal Black Hole Shatters the Scales

The most massive black hole in the universe tips the cosmic scales at 18 billion times more massive than the sun, astronomers suggest today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Even though researchers suggested black holes up to this mass might exist in quasars, this is the first direct confirmation of such a behemoth.

No Satanic Rituals with black cats for you this Halloween...

A Humane Society in Idaho has banned adoptions of black cats, fearing they might be mistreated, or worse, on Halloween.

The Black Keys

The Black Keys are a blues band out of Akron, OH who have a distinctly gritty sound that is refreshing in todays over-produced industry.

KKK store, & black landlord may go to court

A KKK store called The Redneck Shop is renting space from a black activist. Hilarity ensues

Milky Way's black hole probed closer than ever before

We are close to seeing the true blackness of a black hole. Astronomers have detected radio emission coming from within 30 million kilometres of the dark object, thought to be a colossal black hole, that lies at the centre of the galaxy. Includes video.

The Black Button

The Black Button is a short film by Lucas Crandles. It’s premise is simple yet intriguing: if you couldn’t get caught, would you press a button that would kill a stranger for $10 million?

Mid-Size Black Hole Answers Longstanding Question

Black holes can't be seen, but they're detected by noting their effects on stars or gas around them. They're so dense that nothing, including light, escapes them. Only two classes of black holes are firmly established to exist: Stellar black holes typically weigh a few times the mass of the sun; supermassive black holes are loaded with millions or billions of solar masses.

Monster Black Hole Busts Theory

A stellar black hole much more massive than theory predicts is possible has astronomers puzzled. The newly weighed black hole is 16 solar masses. It orbits a companion star in the spiral galaxy Messier 33, located 2.7 million light-years from Earth. Together they make up the system known as M33 X-7.

Colliding black holes may leave infrared afterglow

Supermassive black holes could leave behind long-lasting infrared afterglows visible to current instruments when they merge, a new study says. If so, scientists could find signs of these mergers much sooner than expected.