>>>Recently there were two interesting pieces of news, in the BBC, on the subject of supermassive black holes. Note: Every major galaxy is expected to have a supermassive black hole (millions or billions of Sun masses) in its center; the larger the galaxy, the larger the black hole.
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>>>1. The largest black hole discovered so far - 16 billion Sun masses, 6 times the previous record: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7181877.stm
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>>>2. Supermassive black holes are expected to rotate extremely fast: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7184526.stm
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>>Eventually and in spite of the expansion of the universe, black holes will come together and crush themselves into a singularity. Then another big bang. Then, a billion or so years later, I could be typing this nonsense again :) . . . . or not.
>>(Take that, Hawking!!)
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>Please note that a billion years (American billion, or "short scale" billion - 1e9) is only a fraction of the current age of the Universe. From Wikipedia, article "Universe": "Based on experimental observations, the universe is 13.7±0.2 billion years old..."
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>Also, it is now believed that the Universe expands at an ever-increasing rate. That is to say, strangely enough, the speed of expansion is increasing, not decreasing as was believed in the past.

Yes I know that, but I had to spit at Hawking somehow. He never answers his email. Instead, he gets a flunky to give you the brush off. I'm going to train my dog to pee in his laptop.

And here is a little known fact about black holes. If you could travel inside one and you decended on a trip that would take years, you would finally reach there very bottom of the black hole. After coming to a stop you open your eyes to the blackness and pull out match and stike it, you will see, there at the very bottom of time and all things, are the Seattle Seahawks.