You need patience in science.

You need patience in science. Our paper proposing to image the shadow of a black hole was published 26 years ago. It has now gained over 1000 citations in the scientific literature (according to ADS), which is a lot.

At the time of writing it was rejected by Nature and Science and it didn't get a huge amount of citations initially, but then it continuously increased (shown are the citations per year below).

(Falcke, Melia, Agol 2000, ApJL) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJ...528L..13F/abstract
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