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Conspiracy theories surround weird image of 'black hole' in the Pacific

By T.K. Randall
February 18, 2025 · Comment icon 11 comments
Black hole island
What exactly is this ? Image Credit: Google Earth
An image of a strangely black and featureless anomaly captured on Google Earth has been gaining renewed attention this week.
Photographed by satellite in the middle of the expansive waters of the Pacific Ocean in 2021, this perplexing oddity has been doing the rounds again on social media recently.

Resembling a pitch-black triangular formation miles from anywhere, the phenomenon has sparked various conspiracy theories about spacetime anomalies, secret projects and even alien visitors.

Some even suggested that it was a large opening into the bowels of the Earth.
As it turns out, however, this peculiar feature is little more than an optical illusion.

What it actually shows is an island that is completely covered with trees which happen to be so densely packed together that they appear as a single black shape on the satellite image.

Known as Vostok Island, this small land mass is one of 33 that make up the Republic of Kiribati in the South Pacific approximately 4,000 miles from the coast of Australia.

In total, the island covers a mere 0.1 square miles.

Source: Live Science | Comments (11)




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Comment icon #2 Posted by Bendy Demon 29 days ago
Cool really. Actually at first I thought maybe it was a volcanic island covered by some manner of black sand or silt or something.
Comment icon #3 Posted by docyabut2 29 days ago
Unexplained radioactive anomaly detected at the bottom of the Pacific   https://www.earth.com/news/unexplained-radiation-spike-found-deep-in-the-pacific-ocean/
Comment icon #4 Posted by diddyman68 29 days ago
Anyone actually tried going there to see what it is.? Seems like clickbait to me.
Comment icon #5 Posted by Buzz_Light_Year 29 days ago
Vostok Island. I think the imagine posted is a product of light and shadows.
Comment icon #6 Posted by Cho Jinn 29 days ago
Seems like a nice place.
Comment icon #7 Posted by Torviking 28 days ago
It’s Blofeld,has to be. ??
Comment icon #8 Posted by MissJatti 28 days ago
Just an island, with very dangerous indigenous tribes hence the dark shade lol
Comment icon #9 Posted by Alchopwn 23 days ago
The image where it looks like a vast deep hole is actually a poorly lit representation of tree cover.
Comment icon #10 Posted by asande1979 22 days ago
It's an optical illusion of Vostok Island. They have trees that grow like 100' high and have very dense foliage, so it looks dark on images like on Google Earth. It wasn't hard to find this information when I Googled it. 
Comment icon #11 Posted by Hazzard 18 days ago
Yep. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/earth-from-space-a-mysterious-black-hole-in-pacific-ocean-that-sparked-wild-rumors-online


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