What If Earth Were Sucked Into a Black Hole?
Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this stellar black hole and many others like it. There are approximately 100 million of them out there in our galaxy that we know of. They are the remnants of supernovae, which occur when stars 10 to 20 times larger than our Sun collapse in on themselves. Could a black hole devour us all one day? There are millions of them out there just waiting. And if we happened to make a black hole accidentally, well, you better fasten your seatbelts. Things are going to really suck! Quite literally. What would we see if we got pulled into a black hole? Could Earth orbit the Sun and a black hole? Would we survive spaghettification? What would happen if we get past the event horizon?
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August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
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@brianrosie1762
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
we make blackholes already but they tiny
@ksolphoto
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Correct me if I am wrong or misunderstood blackholes, Light entering a blackhole isn't able to escape the gravitational pull, or event horizon, if we were in imminent danger of the phenomenon wouldn't we already be dead by the time we could perceive it's proximity where it destabilizes our solar system. As our cycle would be disrupted, we wouldn't have a day and it would always be night, I think life on earth would end before we experienced the planet being ripped apart. And if light can't escape the event horizon we probably wouldn't be able to build any machinery to transmit or broadcast a POV of the destruction the planet if we achieved planetary colonization, but we might be able observe it from a far. RIP we can't even enjoy our final moments as spaghettim, "KIDS! Get in the spaceship we're going to Alpha Centuari!"
The current theme for World of Warcraft is the Void and Magic is going a bit space themed with Edge of Eternity (but I am so far behind in Lore)
@jatkaboi
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Bila dah lenyap akan jadi neraka pulak sipalah jahat semua…
@AngkorAngkor-s7v
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
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@tizazukebede9733
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
😵😵
@cinderslow
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
All cgi and ai would cease 2 exist
@EmmanuelKiyindou
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Uhh we will die
@kostaeliseev6292
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
dumb video for uneducated idiots… jesus… that's an epic facepalm
@davethebrahman9870
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
I pray for this every time I see Rachel Maddow.
@willsmith475
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
What if no one cared? Oh not me.
@TANKTREAD
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Cue the AWESOME score of "The Black Hole", composed and conducted by John Barry.
@AndySaenz924
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Just the description of the spaghettification process is terrifying! It would rip us apart on an atomic level! It’s so powerful that not even light can escape it!
@Sounddungeon
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Are you Lesbian by chance?
@RyhzeVyno
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
3:37 MAMAA MIAAAAAAAAAAAAA like if you heard
@trickster19999
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
alot of models explaining how gravity works are done using flat surfaces…. what would happen if there was a cosmic slant where the whole universe is in a state of falling but not downwards but on a type of slant. that would explain why spirals are so common. My new theory of the Cosmic Slant.
@Bellagt_8
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
My thing loaded yay
@Bellagt_8
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
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@Bellagt_8
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Hello
@MERLYNLISONDRA
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
sign up of the black hole gravity
@velvetbat-r2p
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Im not losing to a pin
@AmiGrablun
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
If I would be sucked into a black hole I would hold my pet ruby 💀
@BloodTheGamer
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
3:39 mama Mia!
@enjumamoru6513
August 28, 2025 at 12:25 pm
if we are in black hole and we gonna be sucked into another? we not gonna survive without oxygen
if adam and eva somehow was real? they are too lucky or someone had control over our blackhole/universe from outside
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