Imagine an explosion that covered the entire universe. No I am not trying to scare you. This is the big bang. It happened millions of years ago and scattered dust and other particles Billions perhaps trillions of light years away. The particles came together to form something seen on every clear night, a star. Now they are not the same stars in fact these stars came to be and died in a short time. This is because they were not very dense. When a star explodes it goes out in a supernova blast seen here on earth. What is left over is a small ball white ball about ten kilometers round. This is very heavy. One teaspoon weighs over ten million tons. If it is big enough the star will continue to implode and create a black hole. In many movies like “Into The Black Hole” it shows people who actually go into a black hole and then manage somehow to make it out. However this is not one bit true. Matter spirals in like a drain you could not go straight in.  If you went into a black hole no matter what size, you would be pulled. The gravity of your feet would be more than your head or vice versa. You would be pulled into two pieces and then that would turn into two pieces. If you managed to survive this you would be in the center of the black hole. Here you would see one of the most spectacular light shows ever. In the center of the black hole any light that got sucked in would stay here. But this beautiful show would only last about fifteen or twenty seconds. After this you would be charred like bacon on a barbeque. Sometimes astrologists find black holes when stars take an irregular orbit. Any stars that are close to there fallen comrade circle it until they are sucked in. At the center of every galaxy is a black hole. This happens because after the big bang the particles collected around a black hole. But these galaxies we have today are bit the original. Over millions of years galaxies merged to create the ones we have to today. But they still aren’t done. Our galaxy and our closest neighbor Andromeda are merging. In about 7 million years people will witness a spectacular light show as the two galaxies finish merging or we will be ejected out of the galaxy. As I said every galaxy has a black hole at the center. Sometimes the galaxies feast and sometimes they fast. About twenty years ago scientists became aware of small flares. They thought our fasting black hole was feasting. One team of 5 was sent to Hawaii and another to Germany. On the third night both teams got a picture of the flare, but it was only a snack. While doing the research the Germany team found a ring of stars circling an unknown object. Scientists predicted that this will create a bunch of quick dying stars that will create one enormous black hole. For about ten years scientists had tried to get a view of the galactic center. But it was surrounded by dust. After a while a man created a camera attachment that could see through the dust. For years we have studied black holes, galactic centers, and what they are eating. For years we will still have to study. Perhaps we will never unlock all of the mysteries the strange things hold.