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by AnimalMuppet 1174 days ago
It's 10 solar masses. If it were hit by something big (100 solar masses, say) traveling at 0.9 c, then the result would be headed our way at a bit less than 0.9 c. At 1560 light years away, that would take 1733 years, so it wouldn't get here for another 173 years.

But why bother with this black hole? If you want to go that route, why not just imagine that there could be a 100-solar-mass something headed directly at us at 0.9 c, and it will show up tomorrow?