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That is a rendering, not a photograph, because black holes are only widely accepted to exist by the scientific community. Meaning, no black hole has ever been seen, let alone confirmed, in reality.

The rendering is even accredited as follows:
Illustration Credit: NASA, Swift, Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State U.)

Where are all the missing Black Holes?

There should be millions of them all over the place ‘out there’........................

Or is that a photo of the Republic swirling the drain?

My son and I toured the California Science Center in Los Angeles yesterday and saw the IMAX movie "Deep Sky." It was an amazing movie. It has a short review of the design, construction, launch, and positioning of the James Webb Space Telescope at the L2 Lagrange Point and then shows the team receiving the first images. It then delves into some of the most intriguing and beautiful finds by the JWST. If you get a chance to see this movie anywhere near you, be sure to go. You won't be disappointed. (We also watched Cities of the Future 3D which was pure garbage. Stay away from this one. Far away. Pure drek.)

Here's the link to the official "Deep Sky" trailer on YouTube. Watching the ESA Ariane rocket liftoff in IMAX is incredible.

My dad worked on lots of spacecraft and took me to watch a shake-table test of the Voyager spacecraft while it was being developed. As they swept the vibration frequencies, they'd hit a resonant frequency and the panels on the spacecraft would start moving about wildly. I told my son about that experience of mine when in college many decades ago. Then, of all things, they showed the actual shake test of the JWST on the screen, not long after I told my son I had witnessed that on the Voyager spacecraft. He recognized it immediately. What a coincidence!

This is the "Deep Sky" blurb from the California Science Center site...
Deep Sky brings the awe-inspiring images captured by NASA's Webb Telescope to IMAX — taking audiences on a journey to the beginning of time and space, to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes, and to recently discovered exoplanets, planets around other stars. Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn and narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams, Deep Sky follows the high-stakes global mission to build JWST and to launch it into orbit one-million miles from Earth, in an attempt to answer questions that have haunted us since the beginning of time: Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? Are we alone? 13 billion years in the making, Deep Sky reveals the universe as we have never seen it before; immersing audiences in the stunning pictures beamed back to earth by NASA’s new telescope — and capturing their vast beauty at a scale that can only be experienced on the giant IMAX screen.