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mofongo wrote

That's seriously compressed. I always thought black holes were star-sized at the minimum. I learned something now today 😄

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sudo wrote

Yep. The size of a black hole depends directly on its mass. If you had a black hole that was the same mass as the Earth, it would be 1.77 centimeters from end to end.

And really, that's just what's called the "event horizon" of the black hole, which is the part where nothing can ever escape from. All of the mass is actually in the very center, and it's infinitely compressed. So, in that sense, black holes don't actually have any volume at all.

Here's the Wikipedia page on it, if you're interested.

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