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Tiny black hole getting dropped into Earth:

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Scott Manley2 years ago

This simulation is massively faster than the real thin. The event horizon would be less than a millimeter so, you have to squeeze material through this. As that happens it heats up, so much so it'll heat up, and emit so much light that the photon pressure slows down accretion.

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Scott Manley2 years ago

Back of envelope math suggests for a black hole 1% of mass of earth it’ll be consuming millions of tons of matter per second while emitting energy equivalent to 10% of the luminosity of the sun. It would take millions of years to consume earth.

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Tyler Glaiel2 years ago

I could survive this

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Zach Weinersmith2 years ago

Is everyone okay though?

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Space Koala2 years ago

Man, it would be so horrifying. An Earthquake that just keeps getting more intense over the course of minutes to hours until everything on the surface of the planet is smashing into each other.

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Eduardo A. Cuyar2 years ago

Would Earth start moving laterally like that on an horizontal plane side to side?

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Scott Manley2 years ago

No, that's the camera, I should have selected the earth 🤣

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x100 Solanaceae2 years ago

oh no the economy!

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Scott Manley2 years ago

Yes, that black hole is a little smaller.

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