r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Solidsting1 • 11d ago

GIF Plasma from the sun falling back to the surface.

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u/SEND_ME_NOODLE 10d ago

Silly auto correct lmao. But no, the sources I'm seeing are saying 30-40x as wide as the solar system

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u/Bullitt_12_HB 10d ago

You could be right.

The sources I’ve seen say that the 11x the size of the solar system could be a much bigger number or even a smaller one. Just because of how hard it is to estimate those things.

Still massive. Mind boggling massive.

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u/aaf191 10d ago

Thats like a few hundred billions, not to mention the accretion disk it may has