To put things into perspective: the distance from us to the nearest star is 4.3 lightyears. With a 7-years wide accretion disk, I guess it will catch a lot of

To put things into perspective: the distance from us to the nearest star is 4.3 lightyears. With a 7-years wide accretion disk, I guess it will catch a lot of stars. Also we see it 12 billion years in the past. The universe was a lot more dense at that time so it could catch even more.