Greta Thurfjell: The black hole should go in the selfieskola

I know how it feels. It does, you are in the middle of something, you forget for a second to think about how it looks and so – hey presto! completely without warning! – has anyone photographed one.

It is a pure integritetskränkningen, especially if the photographer in question directly is no Annie Leibovitz. Thus, it can't have been that fun for you, the black hole in the center of the galaxy Messier 87, the other day suddenly find yourself on the picture in every corner of the www that any simple skvallerpresskändis whose bikiniöverdel in an unattended strandögonblick slipped down.

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be so straight forward, but considering all the boundless praise to you in the last few days, you may simply hack in you this only criticism – you became the not-so-great picture. the Actually I was hit by a feeling not unlike the one can get when someone utkantsbekant put up a regrettable selfie with the caption ”felt cute, might delete later”, and you can't stop the thought ”maybe you should hurry up with it”.

Because it is the first picture ever taken of you, yes, in someone of your kind, it is perhaps not surprising. It is not like that you have so many to perfection filtered, carefully vitbalansredigerade black holes-selfies to be inspired by. It takes time to practice up a perfect fotomin, find its angle, learn what to emphasize – after a number of näsbrännor, you learn that you don't really have the assets necessary to, say, get to a full munplut.

the Gods should know that there are countless images as well on me as I would prefer not to have papered over the whole internet. But as of yet no one to my knowledge seen a picture of me and utbrustit ”It feels like watching hell's gate, the end of space and time!”, the German radio astronomy and astropartikelfysikprofessorn Heino Falcke said about you at a press conference this week, so I don't know if there is any further support in this difficult time.

Still have not to my knowledge seen a picture of me and utbrustit ”It feels like watching hell's gate, the end of space and time!”

comforting to the first photo of you is not something the photography in the normal sense, but consolidated data from eight radio telescopes scattered around the world. It took five nights to collect the data and two years to join it to a frankly quite antiklimaktisk picture, so great is you. It is said about you that you are one of the heaviest objects known to man, and that your mass is 6.5 billion times larger than our own sun – on the earth, this is a clear case of so-called fatshaming, thus the guilt of the thick bodies.

If you do not find a originalitetens joy to be the first fatshameade celestial body, you can always claim that the picture does not even imagine. Which in a way is true. You can't photograph, were you a ghost in a reklamkanalsprogram for people who believe in ghosts – the picture is, in fact, your reddish orange shade, the area outside the event horizon, which so effectively protects you from astronomical paparazzi. Unfortunately it is also the shade that has given rise to so many mem if you.

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stop hope that everything was a mistake. Someone bumbling father happened to keep a finger on the camera lens, sorry, the eight teleskoplinserna, and that the Event Horizon Telescope will soon go out with the real picture of you. You will be perfectly filtered and from head to toe dressed in the appropriate baptized influerarmärket Fashion Nova. With your appeal and your ability to bend space-time you will be the most influential influerare the universe has ever seen – the first himlakroppsaktivisten.

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