"...the next universe over, the one Lewis Carroll and Gary Larsen and a few Mudcat denizens are secretly from... :>)"   YEAH, Amos; what MMario said! Nevermind yer funny little chickenface there; Daryl Beano Ratting Oort of yer Grey Alien friends, yuh heeeah? I mean, just because yer the House FizzyCyst dozen give yez License to Chill, yer know? Cold Dark Era, indeed.../ But now lookit, didn't Hawking Hisself declare (thru his voicesynthesizer) that stuff CAN leak out of the black holes, after all? Next thang y'know, they'll have Hair, too.../ But these mere Stellar black holes are just little random Pipsqueaks, ain't they? The galactic cores, that's the real thing. Oy.