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Actual Size

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090v1

This is neat: Figure 1 in this physics paper is a 1:1 scale image of a primordial black hole whose mass is 5 times that of Earth.

A black hole of 10 Earth masses “is roughly the size of a ten pin bowling ball.”

(Jakub Scholtz and James Unwin, “What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11090 [2019].)

(Via Cliff Pickover’s excellent Twitter feed.)

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 | Science & Math

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