Ton 618, 40B solar mass

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The event horizon of this black hole is ~1600 astronomical units, or nearly 32 times the distance from the sun to Pluto. This is close to the diameter of the entire solar system. Voyager 1 has so far traveled a distance about 10% of the diameter of this black hole.

Another[0] black hole relatively close to Earth has an event horizon diameter 14 miles wide.

0: https://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery/the-smallest-know...

Am I reading this wrong?

According to the wiki article, the quasar is 16 bn light years away, but the light we see from it is only 10 bn years old?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

Duh! Thanks.

But we usually don’t speak that way about things that might be thousands or millions of light years away but I bet at those “small” scales the difference might be negligible in conversation.

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