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To: chessplayer

10 times as big as the solar system?

The scale of that illustration shows a black hole much bigger than 10 times, perhaps 80 times or more?

But, I suppose that the article meant to say a diameter ten times as big as the solar system.


15 posted on 12/08/2011 7:39:24 PM PST by adorno (<)
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To: adorno

A diameter 10 times the size of our solar system would mean the black hole has a diameter (way) more than the distance between our sun and the closest star, 4.3 light-years away. Yikes! It would be well over 12 light-years across. Good grief.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=374


26 posted on 12/08/2011 8:09:19 PM PST by chessplayer
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