
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
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How Much a Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Is?
Gravitational waves detected from teeny tiny 30 times the mass of the sun. They're much more graspable than even sort of real things that you encounter every day. If you ask me how much an ounce is like with my hand, i wouldn't be a to tell you. I have enormous intuition about it. It's really crazy, right? When you really get familiar, there's a way in which your sense of scale gets re calubrated because of the numbers that you deal with.
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