Most news outlets are only showing the blurry zoomed in picture of the black hole so I'm posting the entire zoomed-out image of the black hole and everything it is consuming. The tiny black spec in this image is 6.5 billion times the size of our sun. This thing is HUGE.
This thing is HUGE.
oragami_itto wrote:Then I hop on facebook and it's right there, smh. (Stolen from Bao)
This thing is HUGE.
Steve James wrote:Aw, to call it huge is to trivialize it. The scale is beyond comprehension. Try to visualize something a million times bigger than the sun. Now, try a billion. I'd bet that the images look about the same. Might as well be a trillion quadrillion, it's beyond my brain. Otoh, it's great to know that.
Steve James wrote:This thing is HUGE.
Aw, to call it huge is to trivialize it. The scale is beyond comprehension. Try to visualize something a million times bigger than the sun. Now, try a billion. I'd bet that the images look about the same. Might as well be a trillion quadrillion, it's beyond my brain. Otoh, it's great to know that.
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