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minus-square@Isa@feddit.orglinkfedilink8•3 months agoHow large would the event horizon of such a black hole be?
minus-square@floofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglish15•edit-23 months agoI just hopped on this calculator and it says about 710.9 AU, or 106,348,555,982 km (66,081,929,023 miles). So pretty big.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi WandlinkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months 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-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-23 months agoWhat’s the distance to Proxima Centauri? Edit: It’s 268553 AU.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi WandlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months 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.
How large would the event horizon of such a black hole be?
I just hopped on this calculator and it says about 710.9 AU, or 106,348,555,982 km (66,081,929,023 miles). So pretty big.
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.
Thanks! 🙂