No, this isn’t a black hole sucking Earth up. It’s a solar eclipse zipping across the Earth’s surface at 2000 kilometers per hour. This stunning shot was taken from the Mir space station on August 11, 1999. [CNES/NASA; thanks Roklimber!]
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To the untrained eye, black holes and solar eclipses are alarmingly similar
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