How big is a 'supermassive' black hole? New NASA visualization shows the insane scale

Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so. This week we’re going deep on exactly how big celestial objects like supermassive black holes really are. While we might be able to do the math on paper, human brains aren’t wired to comprehend scales billions and trillions of times larger than ourselves. But the latest project from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab comes close to putting cosmic scale in perspective.