Quote Originally Posted by Cybernetic View Post
This is the first photo of a black hole
Nobody had ever "seen" a blackhole before, and yet people have perfectly predicted the existence of it, and also in the exact way that they thought it would.

It goes to show that we don't necessarily "observe" something first, and then we make a summarization or an analysis of it. Instead, we make a prediction first by coming up with theories and hypotheses.

You could say that this has "confirmed" the Einstein's theory of Relativity, or you could (more accurately) say that this was just yet another test that didn't prove Relativity wrong, while it has proved all the other countless theories wrong.

I think the truly amazing thing about this is that human ingenuity can accurately know things about this universe that we have never even seen or been to.

How can we know about things that we have even yet to experience?