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Black Hole The Size of 36 Billion Suns Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe (www.sciencealert.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Americans will use anything but the metric system, smh.

/s

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would be willing to use grams in this case. Final offer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The sun itself is already 1.988 kQg (kiloquettagrams), having maxed out the SI prefixes. 36 billion suns would be 71.64 TQg (teraquettagrams).

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

How much is that in bathtubs?

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That seems big.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Only if true.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Large even

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I've seen bigger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How large would the event horizon of such a black hole be?

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I just hopped on this calculator and it says about 710.9 AU, or 106,348,555,982 km (66,081,929,023 miles). So pretty big.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh my word. 30 AU is roughly the distance to Neptune, so this black hole is almost 24x the diameter of our solar system.

Pretty big, yeah.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What's the distance to Proxima Centauri?

Edit: It's 268553 AU.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Is this what we do now that Google sucks, just ask each other what Wikipedia says?

It's uh, 4.2465 ยฑ 0.0003 light years by the way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks! ๐Ÿ™‚