How does the acceleration due to gravity compare to gravitational field strength anywhere in the universe?
The strength of a gravitational field depends only on the mass of an object and the distance you are from that object. If you were very close to a very massive star or black hole, you would feel a gravitational force thousands or millions of times stronger than you do on earth. We don’t feel these forces from all those stars out there because they are so far away, and gravity decreases not just by distance but by the *square* of the distance, that is very rapidly. Stars in the galaxy feel the influence of nearby stars strongly enough to be affected by their gravity, however, because of their large mass. Gravitational force between two bodies increases with the product of the masses, so stars notice each other whereas a star and a person can’t even tell the other exists (gravitationally).
