Selfies and pictures of your brunch are cool, but have you ever seen a black hole? On the heels of scientists from a global collaboration of telescopes announcing that they have the first-ever photograph of a black hole, Twitter users went wild with the jokes. The black hole photograph has been years in the making and captures a mass that is “about seven billion times more massive than the sun is unleashing a violent jet of energy some 5,000 light years into space,” according to The New York Times.

Source: Huffington Post April 10, 2019 14:15 UTC