How much larger than the sun? Methinks this is comms for a solar event.
(media.greatawakening.win)
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Assuming the story is not fabricated for the sake of comms, the scale is mind boggling. Twelve billion light years away is far outside the Milky Way which is only about one hundred thousand light years across. The accretion disc surrounding the black hole is seven light years across, which as the article points out is about one and a half times the distance between our sun and its closest neighboring star. The disc is like a swirling storm of intense gravity, fast moving matter, violent collisions, and incredible heat and light.
I wonder about the future of such a black hole. How much matter is in the vicinity of its accretion disc? As the black hole’s mass increases and its gravitational reach lengthens, will it be able to pull more and more faraway matter into its grasp seemingly indefinitely? Or will it eventually reach its limit in the void of space and run out of fuel to grow?
Oddly enough, astrophysics has remained pure-"the brightest object ever found" is so far awaythat the light took 12 billion light years to get here. Comms??? NO, there is no threat to us at all however at the locale of that quasar life is chaotic for stars in the neighborhood where it got big enough to invite all the local stars in for a hoedown..
Waiting is..... 😎
Hence my opening phrase:
A while back some of us discussed that a comm often works better when the news story accompanying the comm is actually true or at least largely true. That way the news story is more difficult to debunk and discard, which would leave the comm conspicuously unaccompanied. The secrecy of the comm is not worth risking on a bunk story. Outer space stories are difficult to debunk because most of us rely on the word of the people with the powerful telescopes, but cracks can still appear:
There are exceptions along the lines of “the medium is the message”, such as when the act of lying is the comm itself and the news story is supposed to be easily debunked.