BTW, if you do a web image search for "Milky Way Galaxy Map", there's a hi-res version of the National Geographic map available!
“The black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is more than 25,000 light-years away...”
Noob here! I didn’t realize we were a full 25000 LY from the center of our own galaxy. I’m curious: So, is the new black hole 1000 LY away from the planet Earth still inside the Milky Way? Or is it 1000 LY from the edge of the Milky Way?
Unserious follow-up: I need to know when to start worrying and posting my status on FaceBook.
“I didn’t realize we were a full 25000 LY from the center of our own galaxy. I’m curious: So, is the new black hole 1000 LY away from the planet Earth still inside the Milky Way? Or is it 1000 LY from the edge of the Milky Way?”
Yeah sometimes I read up on this stuff and remind myself of the sheer distances involved.
MW has a diameter of 150,000 to 200,000 light years.
The nearest real galaxy is Andromeda which is 2.5 million LY away.
This black hole is 1000 LY from the solar system. It is not in the center of the Milky Way. I had grown to sort of accept the idea that black holes lived in the centers of galaxies. But this one doesn’t and there are probably others like it.
That’s closer than i thought.
I remember that Voyager was stranded 70 thousand light years from earth on the other side of the galaxy in the Delta quadrant .
not only were they stuck on the other side but they apparently were 20,000 light years even further out...