Universe 'peppered' with black holes.(NATION)

Byline: Jennifer Harper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES There are definitely holes in this story. Some really big holes, in fact. NASA announced the results yesterday of an unprecedented, nine-month "all-sky survey" that yielded the first complete head count of every single black hole in our neck of the universe: More than 200 exist, so many that the heavens are "peppered" with them, one researcher said.

"We are confident we are seeing every active supermassive black hole within 400 million light-years of Earth," said project leader Jack Tueller of NASA's ...

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