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    <em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Stare Into This Black Hole

    The first-ever direct image of one of the cosmos’s darkest spots. Plus: Hot people cause stress, why the frenzy over elite-college admissions is misplaced, and more
    by Saahil Desai Apr 10, 2019 2 minutes

    (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al)

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    , though black holes have long been a staple of astronomy class. Researchers today released the first-ever direct image of a black hole—one of the darkest spots in the cosmos, with a gravitational pull so strong that anything that approaches it is quickly devoured. This photogenic black hole, known as the size of the sun and 55 million light-years away. The photo, in all its blurry smudges of black and orange, is a gargantuan scientific achievement that required a team of researchers to wade though

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