On Wednesday morning,Watch Devil’s Night: Dawn of the Nain Rouge Online the National Science Foundation and the Event Horizon Telescope group revealed the first recorded image of a black hole, and it only took seconds for the memes to follow.
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The memes came fast and furious, basically as soon as the stunning image hit the web.
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But perhaps the most pervasive meme was comparing the M87 black hole to the legendary Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Ringsbooks and films.
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There's still a lot to learn about what, exactly, we're looking at in this image. But it's safe to say that it's probably not really the Eye of Sauron.
Probably.
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