An Age of Magic

A real life ‘Star Wars’ battle

For those of you who dismiss those astronomical phenomenons known as ’black holes’ as utter nonsence I suggest you have a serious rethink. As I write this a major inter-galactic ‘war’ has broken out in outer space with a certain black hole causing far more damage and mayhem than Darth Vader could ever have dreamed about. This black hole has launched a fullscale attack on an unsuspecting neighbouring galaxy…and that galaxy has come off second best.

Scientists from NASA have used technology to view this amazing battle of the stars. The black hole ‘attacked’ the poor little galaxy by shooting massive bursts of radiation in the direction of the distant galaxy and scored a succession of direct hits. Tens of millions of stars were caught up in the fire path and have literally been disintegrated. Now, what if such a black hole wandered too close to earth?.

It goes without saying that life on this miniscule little planet would not stand a chance if such a galactic ‘bully’ was to fire in our direction. Not even Steven Spielberg could find a plot that would save our skins in the face of such power. But as this all happened about 6 trillion miles away from us we can breathe a sigh of relief for now.

Makes you wonder dosen’t it?.  Whilst we can take comfort in the idea that the universe is endless, and these things happen so far away…we really sit unprotected; suspended in space. If things like that can happen there…

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