One of the leitmotifs of this Blog is that the biggest joke in the universe is the joke that one should trust the science of astrophysics over the myth of religion. One of the few joys of living in 2020 is relishing the decline of astrophysics, cosmology, and physics to the level of religion for Yahoos. Every day, new discoveries in astrophysics prove that what scientists thought they knew, had as much credibility as the beliefs of shamans, dwelling on some mountaintop.   “ Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They've now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before .   “It’s the biggest bang since the Big Bang observed by humanity,” said Caltech physicist Alan Weinstein, who was part of the discovery team.   Black holes are compact regions of space so densely packed that not even light can escape. Until now, astronomers only had observed them in two general sizes.