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What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Depends on how big the black hole is. Small, and we’ll be ripped to shreds before the event horizon. Big and we’ll be immortalized in an ever-shrinking amount of red shifting photons from the external perspective. From an internal perspective we’ll also be ripped to shreds tho.

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    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Futurama - Farnsworth - To Shreds You Say

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you press the universal terminal button, type in the command for spawning a black hole, set the mass to 1 kg, you get something very spicy. It’s so small, that it evaporates pretty much instantly, which means that all of that energy gets released as hawking radiation and the end result resembles an explosion.

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      • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        How explosive is the explosion of 1kg black hole?

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t mind being spaghettified

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d actually guess that we’d end up in an accretion disc first and would be ripped to shreds there due to all the other stuff in orbit and less from direct influence from the black hole itself.

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      • Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If it’s rotating, yes. All real black holes are, so you’ve got a point. The tidal force ripping happens in the accretion disk regardless, though. The spaghetti just forms nearly perpendicular to the hole instead of directly towards it.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If it’s very large and stationary, we could survive, couldn’t we?

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      • Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        From my understanding, no. The center of a black hole is theorized to be smaller than the planck length at at least one “pinch” point. I believe you’re mistaking surviving the event horizon with surviving the entire journey to the splat zone. You’ll still be spaghett before the center. It’d be like hitting an impenetrable wall at the speed of light and coming to a complete stop, you’d more like a bunch of neutrinos by the time you get there I think.

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s a theory that we already are. That our entire universe is a singularity.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would suck for a while. Then it wouldn’t.

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  • the_nerdy_prostitute@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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    • SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You would be surprised…

      …nasa.gov/…/hubble-determines-mass-of-isolated-bl…

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    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.

      Don’t be so sure. There’s plenty of cases of black holes devouring entire star systems. There’s so many black holes just drifting around that you could make a case that they are just roaming around looking for their next snack.

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.

      Don’t tempt a black hole into coming down here

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  • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It will be a fucking improvement.

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  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t have to set my alarm for work.

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  • muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We all die

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  • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it would all be torn apart in a process that’s called the spaghettification

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    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Mm, spaghetti…

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    bad things probably

    we’d probably die

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We all die.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t get my hopes up.

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  • jenesaisquoi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If it were* sucked

    grammarly.com/…/conditional-sentences-was-instead…

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    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks, fixed.

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  • Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you’re really interested in this stuff I highly recommend reading “black holes and time warps” by now Nobel prize winner kip thorne

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Essentially, it wouldn’t really matter what happens at that point. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It becomes part of the black hole. Then it will be very slowly evaporated.

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  • Onyxonblack@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The universe would be a better place

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We’d suffocate and then be crushed.

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    • OwlPaste@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most likely is that we would die eay before anything would happen from radiation, intense magnetic fields and black hole gravity fucking up with all sorts of asteriods in orbit. Not expecting anyone to survive long enough to get anywhere near the black hole in reality

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  • redditigon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It seems it’s already in one, it’s so dark all around other than the sun.

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We don’t know. Forces in and near black holes break physics. There is tons of speculation, but speculation is all there is.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We literally took pictures of supermassive black holes, can see black holes eating stars, have the math figured out pretty well and we can see black hole collisions with gravitational wave detectors due to their rippling effect on the fabric of our space-time.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nothing near a black hole breaks physics. And I’d argue that outside what the heck is singularity really breaks physics as we know it.

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    • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We knew they existed before we found them, because of maths, andthe math actually gets us pretty far. It’s the singularity in the center, or past the event horizon that we can’t know about, because reality is shy like that. It boggles my mind that we were able to look around and say “hey guys, I’ve been measuring stuff, like how fast things fall down, and well, you’re not gonna believe this.”

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