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What if a black dwarf entered the solar system?

Last time i asked this, people thought it was racist, so if you don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf

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  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    The odds are less than short.

  • D g
    Lv 7
    12 months ago

    why are you asking.. who cares  what if santa claus is real

    a black dwarf is a  sun that  became a white dwarf then cooled down so its a NON SOLAR  mass 

    if a LARGE mass were to travel through our solar system it would   MOVE OBJECTS BY gravity

  • 12 months ago

    If it came from outer space, it would soon enough go back again.

  • Anonymous
    12 months ago

    Its effects would directly depend on its mass and its trajectory.

    Without knowing either, we can't say what would happen.

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  • 12 months ago

    It would make a great April 1st Joke

    Watch Family Guy

  • 12 months ago

    If something like that happened, we would know about it a VERY long time in advance.

    When it arrived, it would cause a lot of disruption. Just how much and where, we could not know until we could find out its mass and predict its exact course.

  • 12 months ago

    The Universe isn't thought to be old enough for any black dwarfs to have come into existence. It would involve a white dwarf cooling to below about 700 Kelvin, which has never happened so far since the oldest white dwarfs would only be thirteen thousand million years old at this point. Once they have formed, the Sun will have destroyed many of the planets in this solar system, so the situation will not arise.

  • 12 months ago

    So far, the universe isn't old enough for this to happen.  It will take many, many billions of years for a white dwarf to fade to black...

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