How long does it take light to reach us from Andromeda?

How long does it take light to reach us from Andromeda?

2.5 million years
Other Galaxies

Is Andromeda bigger than Milky Way?

But the Andromeda galaxy is a whole separate galaxy, even bigger than our Milky Way. In a dark sky, you can see that it’s big on the sky as well, a smudge of distant light larger than a full moon.

Where is the Andromeda Galaxy right now?

Andromeda is up in the fall sky. To find it, locate the constellation Andromeda on a sky chart, and then find it in the sky. It is near the great square of Pegasus. The location of the Andromeda galaxy in relation to the constellation is marked on the charts found here.

How far is Blackhole from Earth?

Because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, it appears to us to have about the same size in the sky as a donut on the Moon.

What is the tallest thing in the universe?

Tallest mountain: Olympus Mons on Mars, roughly 15 miles (25 km) high and three times the height of Mount Everest on Earth.

Will we survive the collision with Andromeda?

Four billion years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our large spiraled neighbor, Andromeda. The galaxies as we know them will not survive. In fact, our solar system is going to outlive our galaxy.

Is there a black hole in every galaxy?

Black holes are a class of astronomical objects that have undergone gravitational collapse, leaving behind spheroidal regions of space from which nothing can escape, not even light. Observational evidence indicates that almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center.