OP here - The URL is admittedly off-putting & the date of the announcement is odd, but it appears legit:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/02/black-... https://interestingengineering.com/will-we-actually-see-a-bl... http://www.newser.com/story/273418/no-ones-ever-seen-a-black... https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann19018/?lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Dr20f19czeE (live stream)
Could be an elaborate joke but from what I understand it is a set of images from the Event Horizon Telescope https://eventhorizontelescope.org/ capturing Sagittarius A (the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way)