"NASA Reveals Mind-Boggling Scale of Supermassive Black Holes"

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NASA has released a visualization showing the size of 10 supermassive black holes in comparison to our solar system. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with a mass of 4.3 million suns, takes up just half the orbit of Mercury. M87*, the subject of the first-ever black hole portrait, is 5.4 billion suns and would take a spacecraft a decade to reach. The largest black hole in the visualization, TON 618, is 60 billion suns and could swallow our entire solar system without a hint of indigestion.
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