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floofloof@lemmy.ca to [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Black Hole The Size of 36 Billion Suns Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe

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Black Hole The Size of 36 Billion Suns Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe

www.sciencealert.com

floofloof@lemmy.ca to [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about five-and-a-half billion light-years away.
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  • MinorLaceration@lemmy.world
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    Americans will use anything but the metric system, smh.

    /s

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      I would be willing to use grams in this case. Final offer.

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

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          How much is that in bathtubs?

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    That seems big.

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      Only if true.

    • AlbinoPython@lemmy.world
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      I’ve seen bigger.

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

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      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.

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        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.

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          What’s the distance to Proxima Centauri?

          Edit: It’s 268553 AU.

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

            It’s uh, 4.2465 ± 0.0003 light years by the way.

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        Thanks! 🙂

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