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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by KnightOfWords on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:39AM (#19625103)
Yes, we're using a telescope the size of the Earth to look at an object the size of our solar system in a galaxy about 55 million light years away. It's an infinitesimally small patch of sky.

On the other hand, the jet from the M87 black hole is quite large and we have good images of it. It's even resolvable by amateurs, I hope to take a picture of it over Easter with a small telescope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87#Jet

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by O_H_E on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:16AM (#19625516)
> 55 million light years

didn't he correct himself and said kilometers

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by petschge on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:23AM (#19625596)
55 million light years is about correct. Wikipedia still has 53.5 ± 1.63 Mly from older observations, but appendix I in paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab1141 has a bit more on the distance measurements they used. They arrive at 16.76 ± 0.75 Mpc, which translates into 54.7 ± 2.4 Mly.
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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by MR4D on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:45AM (#19625815)
He corrected himself to say 500 billion billion kilometers after mistakingly saying light years.

I haven't done the math, but I believe that roughly equates to 55 million light years.

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by O_H_E on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:09PM (#19630234)
Yup, My bad.
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