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Zooming Black Holes Can Reach ~10% The Speed of Light, Scientists Say (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Relative to what exactly?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably relative to the CMB (the frame of reference where there is no redshift or blueshift bias in any direction).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you! At that scale the simpler answers just don’t feel sufficient

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