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Black Hole The Size of 36 Billion Suns Could Lie at The Heart of Cosmic Horseshoe (www.sciencealert.com)
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[โ€“] MinorLaceration 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Americans will use anything but the metric system, smh.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would be willing to use grams in this case. Final offer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sun itself is already 1.988 kQg (kiloquettagrams), having maxed out the SI prefixes. 36 billion suns would be 71.64 TQg (teraquettagrams).

[โ€“] NoXPhasma 4 points 1 week ago

How much is that in bathtubs?