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minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 day 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-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day 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-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-223 hours agoWhat’s the distance to Proxima Centauri? Edit: It’s 268553 AU.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·24 hours 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.
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.