The astonishing scale of supermassive black holes, with masses ranging from 100,000 to over 60 billion times our Sun's. This visualization compares the sizes of black hole shadows to solar system objects, featuring giants like Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way and the colossal TON 618.
Animation credit: NASA Goddard
Source and further details: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14335
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