The incredible mass and density of a supermassive black hole is hard to wrap out brains around, but a new NASA animation at least makes it easier to visualize.
Supermassive black holes are impossible for humans to truly get their head around, since even the heaviest object we can really understand is many orders of magnitude lighter than even the smallest of black holes in space., NASA has produced a mesmerizing animation that compares known black holes to the heaviest object any of us have ever seen for ourselves: the sun.
This is helpful in providing us with a nice, clean number associated with a physical dimension of length that we can understand. We can look up at the sun from Earth, and understand that the solar disk we see if it were instead replaced by the shadow of the event horizon of J1601's black hole, would put an object 100,000 times the weight of the sun in the middle of our home system.
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