Black hole scale.
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I have to nit-pick here. The author of this video chose galactic center black holes, which are exceedingly rare. Almost all black holes are stellar mass, and extremely small compared to objects like the sun.
Yeah I think he should have included that. People watching this who don't know anything about black holes will now think that black holes are these gigantic objects much larger than our whole solar system when in fact almost all black holes are significantly smaller than our sun since most black holes that exist will be stellar black holes which originally cannot be very large in size by default. Maybe it as to show how large black holes can get. But it is kind of misleading a bit.
I agree. You're not nitpicking, you're just right. Supermassive black holes as we understand them essentially occur once per galaxy. Stellar mass black holes, however, are far more common and *tiny.*