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“Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.”
-Sophocles, c. 420 BCE
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“Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when massive stars collapse in a supernova at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may be formed.”
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Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe...
– Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (via saffrondawn)
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