04. How big can a black hole be? (A K2S Question)

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Scientists believe that some of the largest black holes found in the centers of very large galaxies may contain a billion solar masses. The event horizon for such a large black hole would be about the distance from our Sun to the planet Uranus—about 1,800,000,000 miles.

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