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Ep. 643: Sagittarius A*

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Doughnut Analogies

i get so many doughnut analogies, so i'm going to use two different Doughnut analogies here. If you have a doughnut and you set it in the centre of the large socker stadium, that socker stadium's ring of seats is is the glowe doughnut from m 87. And that normal doughnut, like you get at crisbye cream, that you sit in the centr of that socker field, that's the size of r galaxy. It's centre, central super massof black hole. Now, on the sky, it's 52 milly ar micro arc seconds in size. I'm not even used to thinking in micro so i have to keep

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