“It was not a direct picture as a photographer may take. It is not “proof” of the existence of black holes any more than “photos” of UFOs are proof that aliens in mechanical devices somehow transversed the incomprehensible distances of many light years.”
OK, but...
1. It was something
2. I hear you saying you don’t know what it was
3. So it might have been a black hole
4. Others believed it to be a black hole.
And so it goes here on FR.
Yep and many thanks to Bill Robinson for all the fun.