Matthew Hunt wrote on 4/11/19 8:44 AM:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:39 AM Mark Roberts
<[email protected]> wrote:
Also: It's HUGE! https://xkcd.com/2135/
But also tiny! By my calculations, the accretion disc appears about
1/15 as large as the flag planted on the moon.
Aha, you mean in degrees of arc. Yeah, her TED talk compared the black
hole in the center of our galaxy being equivalent to seeing an orange on
the moon.
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