Just a cool little tibbit that caught my eye on ps3fanboy.com and then I read into it a bit more at:

 http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html

 It's interesting that they decided to use PS3's to do their computation, I'm sure that's atleast partly due to the fact that Sony was willing to give them the PS3's, but I haven't heard of Scientific research using gaming consoles before.  I know we already have folding@home so this isn't exactly the only instance of this, but still interesting to read about.

I don't even wanna think about what kind of calculations were required to simulate two black holes colliding xD

YEP THEY ARE DOING IT WITH MONEY

no matter how much you pout in it just keeps failing....hahah...i just kid i joke

lol @ mosetoto