Google Doodle Celebrates The First Photo Of A Black Hole With A Super Quick Creation

Usually, Google spends weeks or even months on planning its Doodles; however, scientific discovery can suddenly surface, giving Google Doodle artist a harder task.

On Wednesday, every tech and science lover marveled at the first ever direct photo of a black hole when it came out. And as quick as possible, Google worked to celebrate this milestone. In particular, Google’s team created an animated Doodle featuring the black hole at the center, sucking all of the letters into it then swallowed the photo too.

Yesterday, we saw the first image of a black hole, which looks like an out-of-focus campfire, released by scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. It is an important milestone for science to actually see what a black hole looks like for the first time. It is possible that this will help either confirm or disprove Albert Einstein’s gravitational theory over a hundred years ago, which sets the foundation to everything we know about the universe as well as the laws of physics governing our daily lives.

Doodler artist Nate Swinehart didn’t miss the historic discovery, drafting the concept for the Doodle on his way to work. By 2 PM PT, the concept had already gone on Google’s home page.