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Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 10:34:59 UTC No. 16224172
I keep reading that if the sun became a black hole the orbits of the planets would remain unchanged. Is that actually true? I feel like the curvature of space would be different especially around the inner planets. There's also tidal forces to account for, no?
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 12:51:59 UTC No. 16224300
>>16224172
If the mass of the sun stayed the same, the orbits would stay the same. If the sun merged with another star and created a black hole, the orbits would change.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:01:46 UTC No. 16224313
>>16224172
The tidal effects would only be significant inside the radius of the sun.
Anonymous at Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:55:39 UTC No. 16224963
what is it about black holes that makes them the number one most popular popsci topic of discussion amongst the brainlet soience fangoys?
is it the comic bookish aspects of the spectacular, unrealistic and completely non disprovable conjectures which go along with the topic that make black holes so popular amongst the scientist posers and wannabes?