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To: adorno

A diameter 10 times the size of our solar system would mean the black hole has a diameter (way) more than the distance between our sun and the closest star, 4.3 light-years away. Yikes! It would be well over 12 light-years across. Good grief.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=374


26 posted on 12/08/2011 8:09:19 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
-- A diameter 10 times the size of our solar system would mean the black hole has a diameter (way) more than the distance between our sun and the closest star, 4.3 light-years away. --

Your math is off, somehow. From the sun to Neptune is about 4.55 billion km - so give the solar system a diameter of about 9 billion km. Light travels about 300,000 km per second (sun to earth, about 8 minutes). So, 30,000 seconds times 300,000 km/sec is 9 that billion km. An object ten time bigger (that the orbit of Neptune) is covered by light in 300,000 seconds, about 3.5 days.

Or, just take this (uses a bigger solar system diameter), from your link ...

This means you could put the Solar System about 3440 times between the Sun and the nearest star taking this definition.

44 posted on 12/09/2011 8:39:38 AM PST by Cboldt
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