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Beatriz Lecumberri Santamaría, Is it possible to come out from a black hole? An insight from ECE 2022, European Journal of Endocrinology, Volume 187, Issue 6, 1 December 2022, Pages L5–L6, https://doi.org/10.1530/EJE-22-0474
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When Dr Martin Reincke, in the opening speech of the last European Congress of Endocrinology brought that picture to the screen, the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (or at least a picture of its shadow), I felt this was really where we had all been these last 2 years. And, from what we knew, no one had ever come back from one to tell how it felt.
Many of us have lost relatives, colleagues and friends during this pandemic, many of us felt on ourselves the destructive power of such a tiny alive entity, in our bodies, in our teams, in our health systems and societies. We could not see it, but we suffered its consequences, like gravity taking over. The hole was deep, and the dark matter was hungry to swallow everything that dared to look inside it.
But there we were, at the Milano Convention Center (MiCo), a sunny warm day of May 2022, looking at this photo, alive and eager to learn, to refine our tools to help our patients, to enjoy life and friends. The region where almost everything started in Europe, the Lombardy, was the driving force where we were starting to come out, by the hand of the President of the European Society of Endocrinology, Dr Reincke. It was impossible not to see the beauty in this closing circle.
