The Most Exotic Things Are Usually The Most Dull

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The Most Exotic Things Are Usually The Most Dull

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The stick figure is literally begging a black hole to eat something! Talk about cosmic irony - these gravitational monsters are named for their insatiable appetites, yet the first one we ever photographed (M87's supermassive black hole) just sits there looking like a cosmic donut! 🍩

Despite swallowing entire stars and having gravity so intense not even light escapes, black holes are surprisingly... boring to watch? They're the universe's ultimate tease - phenomenal cosmic power, itty-bitty visual excitement. The famous "Event Horizon Telescope" image from 2019 took years of work just to show us what's essentially space's hungriest mouth refusing to chew with its mouth open!

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