Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole

UltimaGuy writes to tell us that Yahoo is running a story about a recent discovery that shows the source of strange blue light coming from the center of the Andromeda galaxy. The light is actually a cluster of stars circling the galaxy's central black hole with immense orbital velocity. From the article: "Such frenetic activity was thought to prevent star formation. Stars form when a knot of gas and dust collapses under its own gravity."

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Argghh

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Why can't people just say it. Things like this are the way they are because God wanted it that way. "The formation of these stars goes against everything we know (should be speculate)." 12 billion years...sure, why not. Thats the only way they can explain their theories because there is no proof from 12 billion years ago. You think that if God can create life, he can make something old too?

Re:Argghh

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You're "not a particularly religious person"? You apparently think there's a supreme being, maker and master of all creation, who for reasons we mortals cannot begin to fathom, gets really pissy if we write down a word that refers to him. But he thinks it's fine as long as you leave out one of the letters. Would I be going out on a limb in thinking you also beleive god has no problem with either roast beef sandwiches or cheese sandwiches, but that roast beef and cheese together is right out?

Sorry, it just kind of depresses me that I live in a society where "not particularly religous" can include people who not only beleive in god, but have such specific beleifs about him as to not only establish that that god is batshit crazy, but allow discussion of exactly what mental disorders this god might suffer from.