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analog31today at 2:54 PM1 replyview on HN

So I wonder, where are these giant black holes now? There should be some closer to us than at the edge of the universe, unless something happens to them.


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tgarretttoday at 3:23 PM

The supermassive black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is merely ~53 million light years away, close enough that we have now imaged it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87#Supermassive_black_...

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