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Black holes are back in the news big time, as astronomers continue to catalog them in the Milky Way and beyond. The latest space telescopes have captured a massive black hole recently confirmed as lying at the center of our galaxy: images reveal several wavelengths of violent atomic activity occurring just outside the black hole. And a few physicists are very worried about experiments resuming at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider at Geneva in the summer of 2009, which might create tiny, dangerous, runaway black holes that could suck the life out of everything nearby.
