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Redbelly98 t1_iubmg81 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:08 AM

Reply to comment by davew111 in A Monster Black Hole has Been Found Right in our Backyard (Astronomically Speaking) by joosth3

>"In our own backyard" would be Alpha Centauri or Barnards Star kind of distances.

The expression is quite vague with lots of wiggle room. 1550 light-years is still a lot closer than the black hole at the center of the galaxy, which is around 30,000 light-years away.