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by simonh 2444 days ago
If the black hole was only 1,000 light years away, and the angle of divergence of the beam was only 0.1 degrees, by the time the beam hit our solar system it would be about 2 light years across, or 126,000 AU.

Compared to interstellar distances, our solar system is tiny.