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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by dwaltrip on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:48AM (#20693001)
That's still pretty damn thin, relative to the size of the rings. An interesting quote from your link:

"If you had a model of Saturn that was a meter stick wide (3 feet), its rings would be about 10,000 times thinner than a razor blade!"

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