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Hey mods, for the sake of scientific clarity can the title be edited to either remove “near Earth”, or to indicate “NOT near Earth”. It’s a clickbait addition
by geuis 5y ago
Hey mods, for the sake of scientific clarity can the title be edited to either remove “near Earth”, or to indicate “NOT near Earth”.
It’s a clickbait addition to the title by the original authors that is already causing confusion in the comments here.
The galaxy in question is 12 million light years away. That is (literally) not astronomically close.
- rbanffy 5y agoFor galaxies, it pretty much is. It’s about 5 times as far as our nearest neighbour. There aren’t that many big galaxies in the radius.
- jquery 5y agoThen the title should say near the Milky Way, not near Earth. The title confused the hell out of me until I read the article.
- rbanffy 5y agoWhen the title said "supermassive black hole eruption" instead of "Sag A* eruption" it was pretty clear the supermassive black hole was not our own supermassive black hole, but some other galaxy's. I was curious whether it could be Andromeda's SMBH flaring, but very certain it wouldn't be our own.