In the early 1980’s, I met a very good radio telescope engineer, who was working on a NSF project. He admitted to me then, that Government directed science was more focused upon gaining funding than in real scientific exploration.
The very best engineers on the cutting edge of technology, cannot predict when a breakthrough can or will happen.
So when I see so called science magazines, that I’ve never seen before, I get skeptical.
The worst part of it is that you & I both know that among that group of researchers, an independent thinker was excoriated for their opinion which didn’t fit with ‘consensus’ on astronomical objects.
Thus, we are presented with a report on a junk science paper purporting that matter is streaming out of a rapidly moving black hole which is invisible because it has no event horizon (nothing to feed it) and that is all there is to it.
“Harrumph.”