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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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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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Oh my word. 30 AU is roughly the distance to Neptune, so this black hole is almost 24x the diameter of our solar system.

Pretty big, yeah.

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