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[Dramatic music throughout] The Sun is the only object on screen and shrinks as the camera backs away from it.

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The 100,000-solar-mass black hole in dwarf galaxy J1601 casts a shadow smaller than the size of our Sun.

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The shadow is about twice that of the black hole’s event horizon, its point of no return.

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The orbit of Mercury comes into view.

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The Circinus galaxy’s central black hole weighing more than 1 million Suns.

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The orbit of Earth comes into view.

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The black hole at the center of M32, a satellite of the Andromeda galaxy, weighs more than 2 million Suns.

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The black hole at the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy has a mass of some 4 million Suns.

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NGC 7727 has two supermassive black holes. The smaller one has a mass of 6 million Suns.

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In turn, we pass the orbits of Jupiter, Neptune, and the Kuiper belt.

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Now comes NGC 7727’s larger black hole, at more than 150 million solar masses.

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The Andromeda galaxy’s monster black hole may weigh up to 140 million Suns.

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Radio galaxy Cygnus A is powered by a 2.5 billion-solar-mass black hole.

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Now passing the Oort cloud of comets surrounding our solar system.

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M87’s black hole, weighing 5.4 billion Suns, is the first to have been imaged directly.

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TON 618 lies in an active galaxy so far away its light takes more than 10 billion years to reach us.

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The black hole’s mass of 66 billion Suns makes it among the biggest known.

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