M87 is roughly 24 billion miles across, while TON 618 is roughly 242 billion miles across. The universe is truly mind bending.
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M87 is roughly 24 billion miles across, while TON 618 is roughly 242 billion miles across. The universe is truly mind bending.
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That beast might be around for the next googol years or more. To it, the stellar era will be but a brief flicker.
Pictured: OP’s mom…
In all seriousness though, I can see how falling into a black hole that size wouldn’t cause instant spaghettification
What’s to stop an object like this from being rogue and undetected because it currently isn’t eating anything, just plowing through our corner of the galaxy like we’re a mosquito stuck on the front fender of an australian road train?
Slightly misleading title since M87 itself is supermassive galaxy with trillions of stars and you can’t just compare size of our solar system to it using few hundred pixels image (our solar system won’t even cover single pixel).
You should usually use “M87 black hole” or “M87*” when talking about its supermassive black hole.
>M87 is roughly 24 billion miles across,
M87 is 132,000 light years across.
M87’s central supermassive black hole is 24 bilion miles across.
An easy mistake for AI to make.
God, voyager 1 is so sick. Its incredible that even on this gigantic scale we have a small piece of engineering that makes it feel not quite as overwhelmingly large
This image is wrong/misleading. Plutos orbit goes out as fas as 50 AU and Voyager 1 is at 165 AU.
I often wonder if the mass of black hole is actually way smaller than people think. All we see is the accreditation disc and where the gravitational pull drops off enough for light to escape. That’s it. There is no way to know for sure if that mass is the size of Mars or a Mars Bar
As a Finnish author Veikko Huovinen said in his first novel: “In this space humans have the mandate of a pissant”.
Excuse me wtf……. Is this comment character limit for ignore the second sentence. Mods are rainbow.
There is a your momma joke here and I’m not sure if im strong enough to make it
Very random question but what font does xkcd use? It’s a very distinctive style
M87 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy larger than and considerably more massive than the Milky Way. This is not an image of M87.
This image was constructed from 1.3 mm synchrotron radiation emissions from electrons captured in a plasma vortex at the base of one of the galactic jets near M87’s super massive black hole.
The event horizon of the black hole is about half the size of the dark central region depicted in the image.
The diameter of the event horizon surrounding this black hole is estimated to be ~40 billion km and its mass is ~6.5 billion solar masses.
M87 is a galaxy which is definitely more than 24 billion miles across.