> With Black Holes the Gravitational Attraction must be able to exert a coersive force greater than the speed of light or be able slow time to an extent where there is no perceivable light output.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. Perhaps you can rephrase.

> The other anomoly which has turned current thinking upside down is that the universe is accelerating in its expansion - this is not possible, is it!

Yes, and the explanations offered seem almost esotherical... although it seems that some scientists had expected some sort of esotherical long-distance force.

> The above combined with the subject of Dark Matter, as I said things are getting stranger by the minute.

There is really nothing strange about "dark matter": all sorts of objects can have a gravitational attractional, without emitting much light: black holes; rocks; interplanetary dust and gas. The only problem is, that the current theories don't seem to be able to account for all the attraction observed.

What is really strange, though, is the esotherical so-called "dark energy", which is supposed to cause this anti-gravity on a large scale.
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>P.S. There is an answer to it all, just some of us are having troubles coming to grips with it.

You can include me in this, too. I think that, while the Theory of Relativity and many aspects of Quantum Theory are well established, there are still many things unexplained, or where there is simply not yet a general agreement in science.