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Reading the article I figured this event was in our galaxy but it’s 22 million light years away! Makes sense that other telescopes couldn’t resolve it.
by marricks 3y ago
Reading the article I figured this event was in our galaxy but it’s 22 million light years away! Makes sense that other telescopes couldn’t resolve it.
- suzzer99 3y agoThe Milky Way is only 100k light years across. So one of those two things can't be true. The article says: "N6946-BH1 is in a galaxy 22 million light-years away". So it's a different galaxy.
- furyofantares 3y agoYep! That's what they're saying - that they had mistakenly thought it was in the Milky Way until they saw that it's 22 million light years away.
- KMag 3y agoI think the GP was just ambiguous with their wording. I think they meant "I originally thought this was within our galaxy, but later discovered it was 22 million light-years away."