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Heh, well some familiarity with cosmology is assumed. All (AFAIK) supermassive blackholes are in the center of galaxies. By my math 99.987% of the universe is
by sliken 5y ago
Heh, well some familiarity with cosmology is assumed. All (AFAIK) supermassive blackholes are in the center of galaxies.
By my math 99.987% of the universe is further away than 12 million light years. As mentioned in the article it's so big that from earth it's 16 times larger than the moon (as viewed from earth of course).
Seems reasonable to consider 0.012% of the universe "near earth" when talking about galaxies or blackholes at the center of a galaxy.
- Grakel 5y agoThe nearest star is about 4 light years. So outside of the solar system, that should be "near." This thing is 3 million times that far.
- sliken 5y agoRight, but the article isn't about stars, it's about supermassive blackholes. The one in the article is like #5 or something out of trillions.