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It seems like the main issue here was that it was very far away and comparatively small to other intergalactic features like, say, galaxies themselves.
by dclowd9901 8y ago
It seems like the main issue here was that it was very far away and comparatively small to other intergalactic features like, say, galaxies themselves.
- mamon 8y agoForgive my ignorance, but black holes are quite common in the Universe, right? Why couldn't we simply take a photo of one that's closer to us?
- Synaesthesia 8y agoThey’re not that common actually and hard to spot since space is mostly empty. This was pretty much the easiest one to detect.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoOne reason is that the closer holes were so much less massive that they were no easier to snap. Just compare it, Messier 87, to ours, Sagittarius A*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_holes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_hol...