Milky Way May Be Teeming With Black Holes


	Milky Way May Be Teeming With Black Holes

tabsey

5-13-2009 9:20 AM

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astronomy, black magic, old socks

tabsey says:

Maybe they escaped from Cern / Large Hadron Collider.

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