“black hole or the eye of Sauron?”: Jokes about black hole

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Astronomers saw star dancing around black hole: “Evidence that Einstein’s theory is correct” — ©YouTube “A photo of the black hole or of the eye of Sauron?”, Many wonder.

Some astronomers proudly presented the first photo of a black hole.

A high day for astronomy, but also for silly joke makers on social media. We collected the nicest jokes of the black hole

The photo – presented by the international cooperation Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – shows a clear ring. In the middle there is a black spot, coming from the shadow of the observation horizon. The somewhat vague photo apparently left many unsatisfied.

De eerste foto van een zwart gat. Getrokken tijdens het voorbijrijden, denk ik. Met een iphone 3GS. pic.twitter.com/KObd3HBk9a
— zegmaarbas (@zegmaarbas) April 10, 2019

I am sure the spatial resolution of the #blackhole images will get better in future. pic.twitter.com/uN9lmN9fGe
— Fakhar Khalid (@FakharKhalid) April 10, 2019

nothing beat the feeling of getting home from school on a rainy day and mom having a warm bowl of black holes waiting for you pic.twitter.com/SIN88AKiTS
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 10, 2019

The historic photo is compared on Twitter with foods including a donut and a bowl of soup.

Sauron

But the photo mainly rings a bell with fans of The Lord of the Rings. According to them, the black spot looks suspiciously to Sauron’s eye.

https://twitter.com/xanderycke/status/1115973487678623745

In 2003 konden we het zwarte gat heel mooi scherp in de bioscoop zien dankzij een paar hobbits. #zwartgat pic.twitter.com/XRyUWtkGr8
— Marjolijn van de Gender (@marjolijnvdg) April 10, 2019

So blackholes are just where Sauron lives? pic.twitter.com/M0XATvxklS
— Saberspark (@Saberspark) April 10, 2019

Black hole

What is really on the photo? A black spot that is three million times as large as our earth, almost as large as our entire solar system, and 6.5 billion times as heavy as the sun. “The heavyweight champion of all black holes in the universe,” according to astronomers.