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Can the newly discovered blackhole (NR6819) suck Earth in the future?

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  • joedlh
    Lv 7
    11 months ago
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    If memory serves, that black hole is a thousand light years away. That 's pretty far -- 5,874,589,152,000,000 miles or 9,454,240,512,000,000 kilometers. I think it's safe to say that you can breathe easy.

  • 11 months ago

    In 15-18 billion years, sure. But by then the Earth will have been swallowed by our sun, which will expand to a red giant in about 7 billion years.

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    If you mean HR 6819, it is part of a stable star system 1,000 light years from Earth. It can't suck the Earth since its not anywhere near us and is not heading towards us.

  • 11 months ago

    While it's possible, it is very, very far into the future.  1000 light years is "close" in terms of how close objects are in the galaxy - but it's still very far away...  Both the newly discovered black hole and our solar system are orbiting the center of the Milky Way - so we're not moving very fast toward or away from each other. Just like the stars that have been our 'neighbors' for a very long time. 

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  • 11 months ago

    no, what, why would you think that?

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    On balance , I think the answer is No .

    One could imagine that over eons of time , the  black hole at the centre of our galaxy should probably consume every star in it -- but I suspect that their  orbital motions ,and interactions with one another ,and even the black hole itself, will keep most stars "safe" .

    But it would be interesting to know if that calculation had ever been made . 

    PS: I forgot -- Ref NR 6819 -- No .

  • 11 months ago

    We'll be absorbed into the sun many billions of years before that.

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