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Has there ever been a black hole that sucked up another planet?
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∙ 15y ago
That has never been observed, but it has probably happened. There is a very large black hole at the center of our galaxy. Infrared astronomers made a video of the motion of the nearby stars over a period of a decade. During the movie, one star is shown sweeping towards the black hole, then turns around and shoots back out almost the same direction. It is quite an amazing sight, and I was surprised the star did not rip apart in the process. It is inevitable a black hole would shred a star to pieces, obliterating most of its mass with a violent release of x-ray radiation. We simply have not witnessed that yet.
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This question is another example of the wide-spread fantasy that black holes somehow
reach out and suck things in, like the bathtub drain seems to reach out and grab soap
suds from the other end of the tub. That's not true.
When it comes to the forces they exert, the only difference between the black hole
and the star it used to be is that the hole is packed into a much smaller volume ...
theoretically, into no volume.
Outside of the size that the star used to be, nothing changes when it becomes
a black hole. You're still at the same distance from the same mass, and you can
go on orbiting just as you always have (although it's a lot darker now). The mutual
gravitational force between you and the star's mass hasn't changed.
Where things get weird and terrifying is inside the size that the star used to be.
Before, it was never possible to be 6 inches away from the mass of a whole star
in a volume the size of a Golf ball, but now it is! And that's where gravity is so
intense that it can rip things apart, and even light can't escape.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 11y agoIn our solar system, no. Somewhere in the vastness of space, almost definitely.
By whatever method it happened by, it is almost definite that some poor sap of a planet somewhere has been lost to a black hole. We've never seen it happen; but the chances of it not are so slim so as to virtually not exist.
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∙ 14y agoA black hole will "suck in" any mass that gets too close. That includes meteoroids, asteroids, planets or other stars.
However, no planet would ever make it into a black hole; tidal forces near the black hole would pulverize to dust any large mass anywhere nearby. Then the black hole would swallow up the dust.
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∙ 10y agoYes. In principle, anything that gets too close to a black hole would fall into it. Please note that the nearest known black hole is at a distance of 3000 light-years, so we are much more likely to fall into a regular star (still not very likely) than into a black hole.
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∙ 11y agoonly if the planet is right next to it, if the sun was a black hole, the orbit of the earth would stay the same, but the planet would be a whole lot colder.
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∙ 14y agosince there are an innumerable number of black holes and planets in the universe, i am certain that it has happened sometime, somehwere
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∙ 15y agoprobably everyone in exsitence has
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∙ 10y agoSure, if they get close enough.
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∙ 11y agoYes.
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Yes it could if it is close enough.
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Has an astronaut ever been sucked into a black hole?
The black hole nearest to our Earth is (fortunately) several thousand light years away. No human has been farther from our Earth than our Moon. Thus, we are technologically quite a ways away from being able to travel to a black hole.
Has it been confirmed about life on another planet?
Life, of any form, has not yet been found on any other planet.
Can a black hole consume a planet?
No, it takes something much larger than any planet ever discovered or theorized. Black holes come from collapsed giant stars. A collpsed star that has turned into a black hole could "swallow" a planet. Thus the mass of the planet would become part of the mass and energy of the black hole.
Who discovered life on another planet?
No one is has not been discovered yet.
How was the planet Uranus been observed?
How was the planet Uranus been observed
How do you get on the Ice Planet?
you have to shoot each space shark until it follows you. then lead them to the black hole but swerve out of the way so you don't get sucked in but the space shark does. do this until all the space sharks have been sucked in.
Was Saturn sucked into a black hole before?
No, if it had been sucked into a black hole, it wouldn't still be there shining in the night sky.
Do black holes eat every thing?
Well, people have never been to close to one, but if a star, planet or anything else in space was near one, it would defiantly get sucked in.
What happends when you get sucked into a black hole?
No one really knows. You might possibly die because they say that the gravity is too strong, not even light can escape it. Others think that it will take you to another universe. No one who might've been sucked into a black hole has ever lived to tell about it.
What would happen after getting sucked in a black hole?
Their is not more info about this because there are no evidences of humans being sucked into black hole but once sucked in, the object which has been sucked in will not be able to escape out from black hole's event horizon as a black hole very very very very very strong gravitational field. But some scientists say that object which went into the black hole comes out through a white hole (which is just the opposite of black holes in all aspects)
Has an astronaut ever been sucked into a black hole?
The black hole nearest to our Earth is (fortunately) several thousand light years away. No human has been farther from our Earth than our Moon. Thus, we are technologically quite a ways away from being able to travel to a black hole.
Is it true once an object has been sucked into a black hole it turns into a lumpy paste?
No. Once an object is pulled into a black hole, it is converted into gravitational energy.
Has it been confirmed about life on another planet?
Life, of any form, has not yet been found on any other planet.
Have Canadians ever been to a planet?
Apart from Earth, no humans have ever been on another Planet, whether they be Canadian, Irish or Bengali.
Can a black hole consume a planet?
No, it takes something much larger than any planet ever discovered or theorized. Black holes come from collapsed giant stars. A collpsed star that has turned into a black hole could "swallow" a planet. Thus the mass of the planet would become part of the mass and energy of the black hole.
Is there another planet that doesn't exist right now?
Probably yes.There might have been another planet that we don't know yet.It might have been hit by a metior rock and that planet went and crashed into earth andkilled all the dinasaurs
Was an eruption ever been observed on another planet?
Not on another planet per se. Venus and Mars have volcanoes, but none have been observed to erupt. Volcanic eruptions have been observed on Io, one of the moons of Jupiter.
