The vast majority of human scientific knowledge we have come to know in the 21st century was derived from data produced by a single technological instrument.
The Hubble space telescope produced unrivaled images of space that scientists analyzed to form theories about countless topics of modern discussion including the age of the Universe, black holes, and other planets that may be like Earth. Many important scientists devised theories for all of the longstanding questions prior to the realize of this data. One question that no theory adequately answers to date may be found in the following statement.
Aliens may exist but hide and ignore humans because they are aliens.
They are areas where no light can be detected in Hubble images. Stars and other points of light can be seen to be blocked out entirely by the presence of the phenomena known as a black hole. I propose the theory that what we have now termed black holes are in fact the locations of centers of alien life. The largest of these "blackholes" exists in the heart of the milky-way galaxy in Sagittarius A
To me it seems clear that judging by the locations of these optical anomalies they are actually fields of containment for the knowledge of alien civilizations. These alien cities control many advanced solar economies. They trade with currency that directly reflects a percentage of the total value of the information of their collective civilization. They value information above all else and they progressed even faster when they invented way to send information their elders broadcast into space aimlessly back into their world to be analyzed. Their entire way of living revolves around upgrading the quality of their existence by scientifically measuring the changes from one cycle of data to the previous generation and then broadcasting it back out to the data barrier only to have it return hundreds of years later and be repeated by the next generation.
To our cameras and sensors these areas appear as anomalies that engulf all other objects but in reality they are decentralized data barriers/transmitters that prevent the information loss of alien civilizations.