Gaia BH3 size comparison: how tall is the Gaia BH3?
Gaia BH3: 195 km · 121 mi tall · 6.56 × 10³¹ kg
Diameter 194.9 km · 1,926 light-years from Earth · gravity 460,606,060,606.1 m/s² (47,000,618,429 g) · 33 times the Sun's mass; most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy
Gaia BH3 is 195 km · 121 mi tall (6.56 × 10³¹ kg). That is about 113,977× the height of an average man (171 cm). Compare it side by side with people, animals, buildings and more on the board above — drag, zoom, switch cm / ft, or export an image.
Gaia BH3 in other units
| Unit | Size |
|---|---|
| Kilometres | 194.9 km |
| Miles | 121.1 mi |
| Metres | 194,900 m |
| Feet | 639,436 ft |
How big is that?
Gaia BH3 measures 195 km across. Earth is 12,742 km wide, so Gaia BH3 is about 1.5% of the width of Earth.
What is about the same size as Gaia BH3?
| Compared with | Size | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| GW150914 black hole (Black holes) | 366 km · 228 mi | 171 km larger (87.9%) |
| Enceladus (Moons) | 504 km · 313 mi | 309 km larger (158.6%) |
| Cygnus X-1 (Black holes) | 125 km · 78 mi | 69.7 km smaller (35.8%) |
More in Black holes
- Gaia BH1 — 56,800 m · 186,352 ft
- A0620-00 — 39,000 m · 127,953 ft
- V404 Cygni — 53,200 m · 174,541 ft
- Cygnus X-1 — 125 km · 78 mi
- GW150914 black hole — 366 km · 228 mi
- Sagittarius A* — 25,378,082 km · 15,769,209 mi
- Andromeda M31* — 826,840,000 km · 513,774,557 mi
- M87* — 38,389,000,000 km · 23,853,818,699 mi
- Holmberg 15A* — 236,240,000,000 km · 146,792,730,454 mi
- TON 618 — 240,374,200,000 km · 149,361,603,237 mi