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From wikipedia
Those two facts are mind bogglingly insane.
Imagine orbiting this thing. Watching it. Watching 11 stars a day worth of matter spiralling into it: every 2 hours, you can look up and an entire star, power and mass equivalent to our life-giving sun, is now inside the event horizon, gone forever, lost to time itself.
He has sat immobile, His body slowly crumbling, for over 10,000 standard years. His shattered, decaying body can no longer support life, and it is kept intact only by the cybernetic mechanisms and sustained by the daily sacrifice of thousands of lives.