How big is the universe? Visualization puts it in perspective. #shorts

But human brains just aren't wired to fully comprehend the orders of magnitude to go from 100 to 1000 to millions, billions and trillions of times greater than measures we understand. When we're talking about things that are trillions of miles away and billions of times the size of Earth, at a certain point the numbers alone start to lose meaning without some kind of visual comparison. But this week, NASA's Godard Space Flight Center conceptual image lab came out with a video that attempts to show just how ginormous something like a supermassive black hole really is, starting with the Sun then pulling back to show the relative size of known black holes. From the relatively small to the one at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, then growing larger and larger until landing on the largest black hole ever discovered, ton 618, which is 66 billion times the mass of the Sun. And if you play it back real fast, it gives you at least a sense of just how small our pale blue dot really is.