Tonight, I went out looking for the small.  ANYTHING small.  I’ll try to explain this as quickly as possible, so please bear with me.

You see, I had just read an article in Scientific American.  It focused on the recent discovery of five very large black holes, by NASA.

Succinctly…. NASA’s orbiting telescope… a thing called NuSTAR….. has found five supermassive black holes that were previously hidden behind clouds of gas and dust.

This is pretty big friends.  We are not talking Circus-Elephant-Big…. we are talking…. END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT BIG.

Here’s the deal.  Black holes mainly occur after a whopping BIG star…. which is about 10 times larger than our sun….. explodes.

Kapow.  A huge big sun blows up and sends its matter shooting into the universe.

And that blown-up-matter condenses into a relatively small space.  It becomes this little black sphere about the size of New York City.

Yet despite its tiny size, the weight of that small sphere has a gravitational force so strong….. not even light can escape its pull.

Okay… are you getting the deal here?  And, they are now saying that even though they have recently discovered five… there are millions out “there”.

And it gets worse…. at least in my mind… it gets WAY worse.  It has to do with Dark Matter…..    Here is the “what.”   Dark matter cannot be viewed by any piece of technology, but scientists are certain it’s there.  This scares the peanut butter me.

Dark matter is believed to take up 80 per cent of matter in the universe, according to a study to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.  This scares me even more.

This Dark Matter makes up 80% of the Universe… and we can’t view it….   Arggggghhhhhh.  YOU have GOT to be kidding me.

And YOU don’t think things go BUMP in the night?  Blame it on scary Dark Matter which is EVERYWHERE…. and WE just can’t put our finger on it.

So tonight… I went looking for anything small.  You see….  I was hyperventilating after I read the article… I had cold sweats… and dizziness….., and I needed to connect with anything SMALL.  Like…. a  Little Who in Whoville.

I found a gnat.  It was one of those pesky little things which nip at you relentlessly….at dusk.  The little Dude was drowning in our bird bath.  It couldn’t get a grip on a leaf. Clearly it was struggling beyond its own belief.

So I saved that little gnat.  Lifted him right out of the water and watched him fly away.

And suddenly……  I could breathe again.

Albeit….. he did fly off into all that Dark Matter.  But nonetheless.  He flew away without nipping at me…

I think I’ll be okay.