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minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·20 days agoOh my word. 30 AU is roughly the distance to Neptune, so this black hole is almost 24x the diameter of our solar system. Pretty big, yeah.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 days agoWhat’s the distance to Proxima Centauri? Edit: It’s 268553 AU.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoIs this what we do now that Google sucks, just ask each other what Wikipedia says? It’s uh, 4.2465 ± 0.0003 light years by the way.
Oh my word. 30 AU is roughly the distance to Neptune, so this black hole is almost 24x the diameter of our solar system.
Pretty big, yeah.
What’s the distance to Proxima Centauri?
Edit: It’s 268553 AU.
Is this what we do now that Google sucks, just ask each other what Wikipedia says?
It’s uh, 4.2465 ± 0.0003 light years by the way.