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It would be like checking on your little kid and finding a fully grown adult.

So they needed a new model to explain this specific red dot's features.

And the study's claiming this new model points to a new kind of black hole.

One surrounded by a dense cloud of cooler gas, kind of like an atmosphere, but it's not a planet or a star.

It means that this could be a stage in black hole growth that scientists have never seen before.

It could also be a new clue as to how supermassive black holes at the centers of almost all galaxies are made.

But astrophysicists aren't really sure.

So the brain is wired to fill in visual gaps.

For example, Ari, maybe an animal sees the tail of a lion hiding behind a bush, but their brain alerts them as if they've seen the entire lion.

Exactly.

And in that case, that brain feature is really helpful.

But

Sometimes in the case of things like optical illusions, the brain perceives objects that aren't actually there.

So, Ari, I want you to look at an example of what the researchers showed the mice.

It's called the Kinesia illusion.

And tell me what you see.

Honestly, I like that description.

A lot of people see a triangle when they look at it.

Yeah, exactly.

So to a lot of people, it seems like there's a white triangle on top of those black