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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by tromp on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:13AM (#20694667)
> in vacuum it's 300 000km/h

300 000 km per second

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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by mcdevilkiller on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:28AM (#20694799)
Are you sure it's km/s? :D
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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by tromp on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:00AM (#20695052)
As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light puts it:

"Its exact value is 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 km/s"

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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by phaemon on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:01AM (#20695057)
Yes, it is.
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