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“Reflections From The River  Since the economy is in a kind of
black hole, I was interested to read that researchers using
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have traced the building blocks
of the universe back one more step and it leads to the massive
black holes in space. We know that the Earth did not spring out
of thin air but is essentially recycled matter and higher
elements. The story of Genesis gets it right in the sense that
we truly come from dust—space dust. But where did that dust come
from?  Many galaxies have a black hole at their center and the
researchers for the first time were able to see how a
supermassive black hole in a galaxy 8 billion light years from
ours was shooting out winds carrying dust composed of complex
elements. The theory is that black holes suck in simple gases at
high velocity where they collide and are superheated, fusing
together to form complex molecule and grains of dust. Thrust
back into space the dust eventually c