Yes, it is. I actually do understand. Artist renditions leading up to this were overblown. But, the days of science giving glorious sprawls of doctored, glittering images (which only tell us a speck in the end) are over.

The days of science staring into the wild unknown for a glimpse of eternity are here. Some will be like a thousand acolytes slowly patching a quilt together.

I’d recommend finding a picture-based guide on how Stephen Hawking derived the principle underlying Hawking Radiation. It can help understand what seeing a real black hole says about the fields from QFT that pervade existence, and about the nature of a tangible glimpse near-infinity.

It may also be the place we all live within oneday, according to some theories of far future human survival.

We’ve just stared at the big sister, when we never knew if we’d see the baby. Though, the picture is quite clear actually, it just has to be understood with fresh eyes.

That black hole is the first time we’ve seen a place that breaks all laws we know, ripples the fabric of reality all around us, and will still be here…

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years from now

(10^69, at a stupidly low-end estimate, with experimental verification of the principles evolved. That’s if it never grew more. Which it will by a ton. It’s age will likely be a few long periods which are multiples of this big number)

It’s also blurry from being the size of a solar system, performing relativistic beaming, and it is busy eating planets worth of material right this moment. All while swarming with enough hot radiation to literally atomize a nearby spacecraft even trying to view it. No matter what is shielding them.

It’s literaly like an F-Trillion tornado, rather than an F5. A storm so intense that it fulfills and breaks all our laws, while turning reality into a froth around it. Just orbiting it would severely slow time.