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    For me, it’s the sheer scale of celestial bodies.

    Our Sun is humongous. UY Scuti’s radius is 1700 times larger - 185300 times larger than the Earth’s. And then there’s TON 618, which has a mass 66 billion times larger than our Sun’s.

    And even those are barely grains of sand when compared to solar and galactic structures… It is humbling, to say the least.

    Edit 2: I deleted the previous edit, because my first observation is correct (scale is maintained when going from comparing radii to comparing diameters…), which is why I have an Arts degree.

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      41 month ago

      Now, think about the energy and forces involved when 2 supermassive black holes orbit each other and collide.

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        Ooh, those aspects are well beyond my capacity for comprehension or visualisation! I feel like an ant watching nuclear explosions.