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minus-squareIsa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoHow large would the event horizon of such a black hole be?
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 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-squareGradually_Adjusting@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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.
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.