Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Interesting to note that there are quite a few nearer than Sagittarius A, as of 2022 we know of one at 1.5 kly: universemagazine.com/en/discovered-the-closest-black-hole-to-the-sun/

It is interesting that a few months earlier there seemed to be no known specific black holes in the Milky Way: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/hubble-determines-mass-of-isolated-black-hole-roaming-our-milky-way-galaxy although their count is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions.

For comparison, remember that the Milky Way is 185 kly in diameter x 2 kly thick.

The first proper galaxy near the Milky Way is the Andromeda Galaxy. Everything else in the middle is a satellite of either of of those.

We can't see individual stars outside of the Milky Way:Any single star outside of the Milky Way cannot be seen.

The Large Magellanic Cloud stands out as the brightest thing we can see from outside the Milky Way by far!

One of the brightest natural objects in the sky, and by far the brightest not in the Milky Way! This is partly because it is relatively close to us.

The basically composed of only the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. Every other galaxy is a satellite of those two.