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Black Hole The Size of 36 Billion Suns Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe

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Black Hole The Size of 36 Billion Suns Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe

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Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about five-and-a-half billion light-years away.

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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.

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