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This is all so very wrong: - it's all liquid at very high pressures, so the pressure guarantees a steady stream of new matter to feed to the hole - even if by s
by 05 11y ago
This is all so very wrong:
- it's all liquid at very high pressures, so the pressure guarantees a steady stream of new matter to feed to the hole
- even if by some miracle there was a material strong enough to hold the pressure (and temperatures at the center) of the whole earth without buckling in (spoiler: there really isn't) creating a sphere filled with vacuum with the hole at the center, it wouldn't stay centered, because gravitational forces inside the cavity in such a configuration balance out, so the smallest disturbance would make the hole move towards the edge of that empty sphere, resulting in those super-strong walls getting pulled in as well
- abtinf 11y agoEarth's core is believed to be a solid ball of iron, not liquid.
- XorNot 11y agoThe earth's core is going to be spinning relative to the black hole. Of course a lot will fall in but any material on the outside will not make a straight line for the hole - its going to start picking up angular momentum, interacting and colliding with material which is trying to move directly toward the black hole and deflecting it. Remember anything which doesn't land on the event horizon is going to spiralling around and deflecting anything trying too. This is why blackholes glow in the X-ray in space and it would apply here too. Sure, matter will stream in at a constant rate - but there are real mechanical limits.