What TON 618 Would Look Like From Earth at Different Distances (Simulation)

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We keep one lake and one sky and bring it in from 10.8 billion light-years to just 0.1. It starts as a star. At 187 light-years it matches the Sun. At 50 the forests ignite on their own. At 1 light-year the rock is boiling, and its gravity is still only about 10 times the pull of the Sun.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:11 The real distance
0:43 2.5 million light-years
1:03 100,000 light-years
1:23 10,000 light-years
1:42 1,000 light-years
2:05 500 light-years
2:25 187 light-years: a second Sun
2:48 100 light-years
3:09 50 light-years
3:32 20 light-years
3:54 7.4 light-years
4:18 4.24 light-years
4:39 1 light-year
5:04 0.4 light-years
5:24 0.1 light-years
5:46 Back on Earth

Numbers on screen use a mass of 40.7 billion Suns (some estimates say 66 billion) and a brightness of about 140 trillion Suns, with light falling off by the inverse-square law. Temperatures are simple estimates from the extra light alone. Nobody has resolved TON 618's disk or jet, so their size and look are our best guess, and exposure is adjusted so you can see each step. Terrain is procedural. In reality the mountains wouldn't survive the closest stops: we keep them for scale.

Sources
• Ge et al. (2019), The Astrophysical Journal: C IV-based mass of TON 618
• Shemmer et al. (2004), The Astrophysical Journal: earlier 66-billion estimate
• Wikipedia: TON 618 (distance, redshift, luminosity, radio emission)
• Guinness World Records: heaviest black hole

Music
'Aphelion' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au