In the end, nothing what we see, hear, taste, feel, is like what our senses communicate it as to the brain, wich turns the photon storm on the retina into an electrons storm inside the neural sponge inside what we consider to be a.) "our" b.) "heads".
As Paul Watzlawick once put it so remarkably nice: "Die Wirklichkeit wird von uns nicht
ge-funden, sondern
er-funden." (Reality does not get discovered but invented by us). Its all a dance of ever-changing temporary structures of - well, of whatever it is. Usually we put in the word "energy" here as a joker.
The brilliance of the image of that black hole maybe not so much lies in what it tells a black hole is, but what it tells it is not.
And keep in mind that it were radio telescopes that got networking together here. They do not provide a "visual-optical" image that compares to that of an optical telescope. In a way, it is an illustration of abstract data, systematically constructed and not fully subjective like that of a painting artist, still: a visualising model of something. Like many interstellar photoghraphies are artifical combinations of data from various different kinds of telescopes and their according wavelengths as well. They visual output format is constructed, not objectively observed.
Considering how very different one and the same tiny place in the universe may look to different life forms like bats with ultrasonic orientation, mammals with eyes, blind animals with good ears, tiny insects with a completely different perception of time contexts and time passing than a human, I wonder how much more there is around us everywhere that exist parallel to us maybe right now, and we just are unable to perceive the other, and recognise the others' existence. Elves, anyone?
The universe is a strange place. The mere fact that something exists at all instead of just nothing being there, is strange. But maybe only when yto make sense of it from inside the contexts of this universe, and no other possible one with different natural laws, may it be real, or just a not materialised potential.
We all are at the same time part of the same one-ness, but create our own individual representation of it that we then believe to live in. I believe since many years now that the key to exploring and understanding the outer space is - to understand our inner space. Any maybe we will find in the end that both are one and the same.