The International Symposium on Private and Commercial Spaceflight is an annual meeting for the industry's top leaders and innovators, but according to the meeting's co-founder, Patricia Hynes, its central purpose is to get student projects off the ground.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
