What happens in a black hole, stays in a black hole, unless you combine a network of some of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes to create history and capture an extraordinary snap of the elusive galactic phenomenon.

In a truly supermassive deal, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole at six simultaneous news conferences around the world.

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The team used a global network of radio telescopes in the US, Mexico, Chile, Spain and Antarctica to create one giant dish powerful enough to capture the silhouette of an object some 54 million light-years from Earth, thanks to the combined efforts of a team of some 200 scientists and astronomers.

However, meme enthusiasts the world over may not quite have understood the gravity of the situation. Both the Simpsons and the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films featured heavily.

Breaking: astronomers capture the first image of a black hole. pic.twitter.com/UG4DVLw3yV — Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits) April 10, 2019

The photo of the black hole is blurry, but if you zoom and enhance then you can see its full destructive power pic.twitter.com/c1wPV0vmrC — Mark Doherty (@dohertymark) April 10, 2019

While others took issue with the apparent lack of clarity and blurriness of the image, despite the superhuman efforts of the scientists and astronomers.

Eureka! Black Hole Photographed for 1st Time. 😱 pic.twitter.com/fXy2IXB2Pi — Kerbal Space Program (@KerbalSpaceP) April 10, 2019

Others were just hungry it seems.

used Photoshop's shake reduction filter on the Black Hole photo and was amazed by the result#EHTBlackHolepic.twitter.com/RLBPyuIx3T — Paul Scott Canavan (@abigbat) April 10, 2019

Ran some tuning scripts to get these enhanced images of the #BlackHole. pic.twitter.com/HS91oALPC4 — That Goan Guy (@schmmuck) April 10, 2019

Had a lunchtime accident. Sorry for the autofocus.#blackholepic.twitter.com/gmGF8jDHAF — Gerran Howell (@GezFez) April 10, 2019

And others resurrected some old favourites to mark the historic occasion.

Nobody:Astronomers: I’m going to take a picture of the #blackhole The black hole: pic.twitter.com/kCCr0OuKaT — J Mad (@TheMadClass_PYP) April 10, 2019

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