Event Horizon Telescope, May 12, 2022




how we always wanted to know

what was at the centre of it all
a sense of generational longing

only cured by operatic narrative
supermassive black hole shadow

glowing ring with cavity puncture
from far: brooding, slumberous

closer: orange-red smouldering
fast spinning silhouette wreath

devouring infalling surrounds
gas, debris swirling its perimeter

as stars slingshot around the rim
the interstices between itself

and those who view back home
an undressing blur of wonder

four million times that of our sun
synced observatories, collaboration

how we come together, uncovering
an image, years in lucid construction

calculations unveiling visions of data
core of our Milky Way hub singing

as we assemble the transit of notes