GW150914 black hole size comparison: how tall is the GW150914 black hole?
GW150914 black hole: 366 km · 228 mi tall · 1.23 × 10³² kg
Diameter 366.2 km · 1.3 billion light-years from Earth · gravity 245,161,290,322.6 m/s² (25,016,458,196 g) · 62 times the Sun's mass; first merger heard by LIGO (2015)
GW150914 black hole is 366 km · 228 mi tall (1.23 × 10³² kg). That is about 214,152× 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.
GW150914 black hole in other units
| Unit | Size |
|---|---|
| Kilometres | 366.2 km |
| Miles | 227.5 mi |
| Metres | 366,200 m |
| Feet | 1,201,444 ft |
How big is that?
GW150914 black hole measures 366 km across. Earth is 12,742 km wide, so GW150914 black hole is about 2.9% of the width of Earth.
What is about the same size as GW150914 black hole?
| Compared with | Size | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Ceres (Dwarf planets) | 939 km · 583 mi | 573 km larger (156.4%) |
| Enceladus (Moons) | 504 km · 313 mi | 138 km larger (37.6%) |
| Gaia BH3 (Black holes) | 195 km · 121 mi | 171 km smaller (46.8%) |
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
- Gaia BH3 — 195 km · 121 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