Short Sharp Science: Black hole unleashes enduring cosmic blast

A huge explosion 3.8 billion miles from earth and we are still capturing pictures a week later. This is another one of those events for which we can only come up with our best guess while we look on in awe.

Short Sharp Science: Black hole unleashes enduring cosmic blast

A Black Hole “Too Big” For Its Galaxy

When cosmologists write their books they seem to have all the answers but as we are able to see further and further into the universe, we find that some of our previous best guesses are not even in the ball park. This article covers our latest findings regarding black holes. What is clear by the articles conclusion is that while what we do know fills libraries, there seems to be infinitely more to learn.

SkyandTelescope.com - News from Sky & Telescope - A Black Hole “Too Big” For Its Galaxy

Mysterious Disk Shaped Shadow on Distant Star

Ofen we think of science as knowing and understanding almost everything.  They speak as if they "know" when on almost every front of science there are more unanswered questions than there is true understanding of this incredible world around us.

The link below tells of one of those mysteries.  Perhaps some day we will have a telescopes powerful enough to make out just what is causing this mysterious disk shaped shadow on a remote star. 

 University of Michigan (2010, April 8). Astronomers take close-up pictures of mysterious dark object. ScienceDaily. Retrieved