M87 Memes

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!

The cosmic equivalent of running into your ex! In the top panel, our stick figure friend is confronted with the famous first-ever black hole image (M87) asking "IS THAT YOU?" Meanwhile, the Sun in the bottom panel is desperately trying to distance itself from its embarrassing supermassive phase with the classic "Yeah... but that's an old photo..." excuse. Classic celestial body image issues! The Sun doesn't want to admit it might eventually expand and collapse too. Just like humans hiding their awkward high school yearbook photos, stars have phases they'd rather not discuss at dinner parties.

The first-ever image of a black hole wasn't just a groundbreaking scientific achievement—it was apparently Snoop Dogg taking a massive hit all along. Turns out the singularity at the center of M87 that required a planet-sized telescope array and petabytes of data to capture is just what happens when you've got that astronomical kush. Scientists spent decades developing the technology to peer 55 million light-years into space, while Snoop's been demonstrating the same physics with his lighter for years. Einstein never mentioned that spacetime gets extra curved when you're blazed.