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minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-211 days 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 Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 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-211 days agoWhat’s the distance to Proxima Centauri? Edit: It’s 268553 AU.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 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.
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.
Thanks! 🙂
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.