Black Holes May Turboboost Super-Civilizations

Black Holes May Turboboost Super-Civilizations : Discovery News: "Because our galaxy is teeming with planets it should be home to countless extraterrestrial civilizations. That is unless, through some perverse twist in nature, intelligent life is an evolutionary dead-end. But let's be optimistic and assume that some fraction of far-flung worlds rise to the status of a hosting a super-civilization."