Posthuman Blues

Creation of Black Hole Detected

"A faint visible-light flash moments after a high-energy gamma-ray burst likely heralds the merger of two dense neutron stars to create a relatively low-mass black hole, said Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It is the first time an optical counterpart to a very short-duration gamma-ray burst has ever been detected."

I'm not suggesting this was anything other than a natural cosmic event, but I wonder: If your goal is to create a black hole (perhaps for megascale industrial purposes), maybe crashing two neutron stars is a relatively economical way of doing it. End wild speculation.