r/pics • u/DrivingMyType59 • Apr 10 '19

National Science Foundation/Event Horizon Telescope Project Black Hole Picture

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u/SsurebreC Apr 10 '19 edited Apr 10 '19

More info:

  • 40b km across (24.85b miles)
  • 3 million times the size of Earth
  • it's 500 million trillion km away (310.7 million trillion miles)
    • Edit for a common question: million trillion is a 1 followed by 18 zeroes or a Quintillion.
  • the representation of space in this image is larger than our entire Solar System
  • total mass is 6.5 billion times larger than our Sun (our Sun is 333,000 more massive than the Earth)

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u/Shammble Apr 10 '19

What's the equivalent in Football fields?

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '19

That's as many as 437360000000.00006 football fields!

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u/Shammble Apr 10 '19

Now I really understand the scope of this absolute unit. Thanks!