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tingtong500 t1_jdtrrn3 wrote

Reply to comment by __Raptor__ in Scientists discover supermassive black hole that now faces Earth by x3Smiley

So is it shooting stuff at us or sucking us in and how far away is it half a galaxy away or just a few systems over

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__Raptor__ t1_jdxsdu9 wrote

Its shooting stuff at us. Or, rather, has been for 657 million years and its just taken that long for the light to reach us.

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4thDevilsAdvocate t1_jdu62qg wrote

Black holes don't "suck things in" anymore than anything else in the universe does.

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