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Icy-Conclusion-3500 t1_je46bqe wrote

Reply to comment by innertiaworld in Question about Light Years by innertiaworld

Even if earth and the black hole were heading towards each other at the speed of light (can’t go any faster), it would take hundreds of millions of years to meet in the middle.

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innertiaworld OP t1_je46fib wrote

Oh, ok! Thank you for answering (and being patient with me for not knowing this stuff)!

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[deleted] t1_je46x7s wrote

At that distance, cosmic expansion may keep them from ever meeting, even if they kept coming at one another. Space is weird.

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