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black hole lens

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2008.01.13

My friend, who's recently bought not one but two cameras, suggested today that a very small black hole should be use as a lens for photography. The idea being that it would gather all of the light without any diffraction or internal loss.

I'm supposed to be a sci-fi writer, and I don't come up with anything that good....

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

—Hunter S. Thompson