He admits Ando's cherished mobile devices "will be like black holes, sucking every electronic function into them, " but he bets digital entertainment will begin in the broadband home.

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In the aftermath of these collisions, physicists hope to find footprints that prove the existence of a handful of things their calculations say should exist, like black holes, dark matter and dark energy.

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But what about other productivity black holes like Sales, Customer Service, and Product Development?

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They are produced by supernovae, neutron stars, galactic centres, black holes and the like.

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Such black holes ranging in size from 1, 000 to 10, 000 times the mass of the sun should sit inside globular clusters like scaled-down versions of galactic black holes at least in theory.

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"Black holes can bang on space time like mallets on a drum, " she said.

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On the palms of his hands and the tops of his feet were black, fleshy protuberances (not bloody holes, as in the paintings) that looked like nail heads, while on the opposite sides the tops of his hands and the soles of his feet there were protuberances resembling nail points, but bent back, in a curve.

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