Astronomy vs. Climatology – A Contrast in Disciplines

Recently, ClimateGate revealed that many who work in the Climatology discipline have been blinded by greed, or blind faith akin to religion, or both, forsaking the pure pursuit of truth normally associated with scientists.  I cannot help but be shocked by the disparity in the behavior of scientists in the Climatology discipline versus those in [...]

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Black Holes and Invisible Extra Dimensions

No, that’s not the lead-in for my next science fiction story, though it sure could be.  Instead, this is happening in our lifetimes, in the real world.  It involves the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and smashing quarks and gluons together to attempt to create tiny black holes that will exist for barely a moment in [...]

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Supermassive Black Hole Discovered

Given that this website is entitled Black Hole Thoughts, it seems only right to have some posts devoted to black holes.

Last month, Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues from the University of Hawaii reported they discovered a distant galaxy swirling around the most super-massive black hole ever detected.

The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as [...]

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