Ginormous Black Hole 

A couple of weeks ago, the largest black hole with an ultraluminous quasar has been found.  You can see how many times bigger it is than anything else that we've found by looking at the graph below.  Props to the international team lead by Xue-Bing Wu of Peking University.  Check out more here!  

Creating a Different Kind of Life

A team of Cornell University researchers has successfully modeled a methane based, oxygen free life form that can metabolize and reproduce.  This points to the possibility of life on other places that are really cold with methane, like Saturn's moon Titan.   

Emotional about Space

I hope you guys get professors like this who absolutely love their job in the next few years.  This professor Tom Burns really gets emotional talking about space.  Couple that with an Inception soundtrack, and then maybe some goosebumps may rise.    

Mars and Water

Using the riverbeds of Mars mapped out by the rovers, artists have created an image of Mars when it was covered in water.  

Gravitational Lensing

Whoa, those presentations were quite impressive last week. We had tremendous discussions involving gravitational lensing; its effect has also given us a rerun of a supernova.  Check it out!