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yukimi-sashimi t1_jdujo4i wrote

Reply to comment by Depth_Metal in Scientists discover supermassive black hole that now faces Earth by Bcap2219

There is nothing special about the gravitational pull of a black hole. It has pull according to its mass, just like every other object. If you have a black hole that is the mass of the earth, then about 4000 miles away from it, you'll feel a 1G pull.

If the sun was suddenly replaced by a black hole, we'd continue to orbit. We just wouldn't get any sunlight, and of course that would be an extinction event, but that's beside the point

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boomshiki t1_jdv2gh0 wrote

Tho if you were to fall into the black hole, you’d be free to knock books off your daughters bookshelf in the past

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