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Memes on Black Hole Photos

Apr 12, 2019

Recently the first ever picture of the black hole was revealed. The image is a little blur and shows the black hole situated in the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 or M87. Termed as seeing the unseeable, the scientific landmark became a hot topic on the internet and inspired a lot of memes and jokes. Check out the reaction below:

Read out some details about the black hole below:

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This thing is huge and is said to be around 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. It matches predictions dating back decades.

M87's supermassive black hole is active, which means that it is surrounded by an incredible accretion disc of very hot, whirling gas and dust that is slowly falling into the black hole.

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The scorching orange and black photo were soon compared to a lot of circular things. Some say it resembled the symbol of evil in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, while others thought it was a fake image.

Check out the memes below:

The first photograph was released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. The EHT is a network of 10 radio telescopes on four continents that jointly operates like a single instrument nearly the size of the Earth.
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