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Forgive 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?
by mamon 8y ago
Forgive 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...