Ever seen one of those deals where you put a penny on it and it spirals down, supposedly emulating a “black hole”? I first saw one at the Omniplex, but then they started having them in stores and stuff for fundraiser things.
Frickin’ cool photo Denny.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is one of my favorite Hubble images.
This has been my PC wallpaper at work for the past couple of months:
It’s available [u]here[/u] in four different resolutions (from 640x480 up to 1280x1024).
Incredible! 
Hmmmm … looks like chicken vindaloo and one too many Foster’s (which btw is one) 
Looks exactly like a mandlebrot set I did once…
Those are actually a pretty good analogy for how a black hole’s gravity
bends space. Our Sun’s gravity bends space, too, but not so much
that it creates a vortex