understanding black holes is a tricky business evidently. the prevailing ideas shift endlessly as we look and listen, connecting the dots. in the past few months researchers have been faced with quite a bit of new data to try and fit into the puzzle. they have detected the oldest super-massive black hole yet, so old in fact that it may single handedly force a change in our understanding (which seems only fair to me. anything big enough to fit 1,000 of our own solar systems and weighing about as much as all the stars in the milky way has my blessing to single handedly change anything it wants). simultaneously researchers have also detected the youngest black hole. only two decades old “it is the closest researchers have come to witnessing the birth of a black hole”. meanwhile european researchers found 30 previously hidden black holes, suggesting there are at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as previously thought. there are other oddities being discovered as well. anyhow, cheers to all you black holes out there, old Q0906 6930 and the rest, for keeping us humble.