Minecraft Player Builds One of the Milky Way’s Black Holes

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Despite much of the stereotype that the gaming industry is an outlet for violence and adult themes, titles such as Minecraft go against such pigeonholing. Given that it's one of the most laid back video games out there, its entire philosophy is built on the idea of exploration and creativity and is the reason why it's one of the most successful IPs in recent history. Alongside that, it has millions of talented individuals who are always letting their imaginations run loose, and sometimes they reflect what's going in the world of real science.

Uploading a number of images to the Minecraft subreddit a few days ago, user SrMustard decided to celebrate a recent historical moment of discovery. Specifically, they've managed to recreate Sagittarius A*, pronounced A-star and also known as Sgr A*, which is a supermassive black hole that sits in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. On May 12, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first ever photograph of the black hole and, evidently, the Minecraft player wanted to reflect this in their own creation.

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It's a pretty spectacular build, with some of the wider shots showing the glow of the black hole, with distinctive swirls spinning around it. Naturally, many in the Reddit thread have paid compliments to SrMustard for their efforts. Of course, given that the real Sgr A* is about 26 million kilometers across, the recreation is not to scale, but is still a very impressive facsimile of this magnificent image. While the mod GalactiCraft implements space exploration in Minecraft, the cosmos is something that is seldom delved into within the game, which is a bit of a shame. Having said that, the base game itself is