Well, I've heard of black holes in dryers...these are the phenomena behind the mystery of "two socks go in, one sock comes out." I've heard of luggage black holes...when the airline check-in clerk drops your bag on the conveyor belt and you see it whisked away only to fail to re-emerge at your destination. But apparently, there are black holes on the Internet: pathways that mysteriously fall away and allow your data to fall...somewhere. In with billions of missing socks, perhaps?

Read the MSNBC article entitled, "Scientists discover black holes on the Internet".

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