• Question: What if a black hole replaced the sun in the sky? Will Earth explode?

    Asked by MehroBliss919 to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 14 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by 664radg29.
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      Reka Nagy answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Interesting question.
      A black hole would weigh the same as the Sun, so Earth would continue orbiting it – I don’t think we’d get sucked into it. We would of course not have the sun’s light anymore, so all life on Earth would die pretty quickly.

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