M87* black hole photo was cool but the hype felt off

I read that article claiming the Event Horizon Telescope image was the most important photo ever taken. Respectfully, I don't buy it. That shot took 2 years of processing data from 8 observatories just to show a fuzzy orange donut. Meanwhile, Hubble's deep field images from 1995 revealed thousands of galaxies in a tiny patch of sky. That changed how we see the universe way more. I mean, the black hole photo was a technical achievement sure. But calling it the greatest photo ever seems like marketing over reality. Anyone else think we oversold what we actually got from that project?

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rowanp1517d ago

The "fuzzy orange donut" line kills me lmao

noahw5316d ago

Wait did you mean the old commercial where the cat was called a fuzzy orange donut? Pretty sure it was a Cheeto puff, not a donut.

blair_butler4717d ago

Oh man that line got me too! My cat once sat in a box of Cheetos and I called her spicy Cheeto puff for a week.