Award For Awesomest First Paragraph

Maybe I will do this every Friday. I will show an example of the best first paragraph (known as "leads" to journalism people) from a news story.

This week it comes from, of all places, Fox News.

"The most energetic particles in the universe — high-energy cosmic rays — likely come from enormous black holes nestled in the restless hearts of traumatized galaxies, scientists say."

RESTLESS HEARTS OF TRAUMATIZED GALAXIES! How gripping! I feel for those cosmic entities, somehow, while simultaneously being terrified of their might.

This journalist was probably a creative writing major who wants to write a novel someday. And I hope they do. Because I will buy that novel, if they can make something as dry and clean-cut as a news story sound like a heavily symbolic love poem written by Spock himself, then they could do great things in the wide-open world of fiction.

MMMMM science journalism! Beautiful!