On York Boulevard in Los Angeles, a blurred black hole hangs on a dark wall, joined only by a pair of headphones playing looping echoes of its siblings colliding.
It's a familiar scene of our galaxy's supermassive central void, and certainly one that has flown far and wide over the years. I'd bet you've seen it. Journalists (including myself) have fawned over this image, affixing it to exhilarating news stories under titles like "First Image of Milky Way's Black Hole" or "Center of Our Galaxy Revealed." Universities have thrown it onto press releases about the Earth-spanning array of radio telescopes it owes itself to, and scientists have published it in heady studies while endearingly calling its subject just what it looks like: a fuzzy orange doughnut.
