There was an interesting announcement today from the world of extra-galactic astronomy, as a team from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (a name which I think sums up the creativity of scientists perfectly) have published evidence of the first black hole to be detected outside of our own Milky Way galaxy.

(For those few who do not yet know what a black hole is, it is a region of space and time that is so strongly curved, or has such a strong gravitational field, that not...
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