The height of the Cold War
A lot of you may have invariably seen some variation of this "U.S. Planned to Blow Up the Moon!" on the news on Wednesday. I am here to ensure that sanity does prevail and obviously dismiss any such thing of having gotten in the heads of the men in the Pentagon at the time. I am sure they would have loved to scare the USSR, but not by blowing up the Moon. Not only is that dangerous to humanity, but also an extreme difficult undertaking that would have been impossible.
Astronomers puzzled by unusual giant black hole
Now to more serious matters. If you're a space enthusiast like me, you know that black holes are all the rage in space these days. Astronomers want to find out as much as they can about black holes and they have done so again. This time they have shown that black holes can be massive even in small galaxies. Black holes are so strange that even those that have a mass of a 1000 Suns could only be as big as our own planet Earth!
Get to know the Quasar
Talking about a 1000 Suns, we have Quasars that emit energy that is over two trillion times - that's right - the energy discharged by our Sun. Quasars have everything to do with black holes as they form the core of the galaxies and contain the black hole. More study of the quasar holds the key for figuring out black holes.