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This optical color image of galaxies is seen overlaidwith X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's black hole-hunting NuSTAR space telescope. The arrow points to magenta blobs indicating giant, supermassive black holes discovered by the space telescope. A powerful NASA space telescope has found not one, but 10 monster black holes lurking in the hearts of distant galaxies — the first major finds for the X-ray space observatory, scientists say. The discoveries, which scientists say occurred "serendipitously," were made as astronomers reviewed images from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an X-ray space telescope designed specifically to hunt black holes. "We...

At first, the deluge of dead-trayvon commemoration, dedication,memorial was tolerated, looked upon by the rest of us only because it was so bizarre, so from deep within the demented labyrinth of liberal, left-wing psychosis, it piqued our interest only as far as any mental derangement facilitated to such public fanfare would make anyone stop, look and listen. Here was a two-bit criminal permanently removed from our midst due to his anti-social bent, lack of respect for fellow human beings, awareness of the world he inhabited, being lionized in a manner that can only be described as being cognitively, socially, personally...