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You have an object the mass of a gas giant. Planets by definition sweep their local neighbourhood clear of objects. So the black hole is going to carve out an a
by qubex 6y ago
You have an object the mass of a gas giant. Planets by definition sweep their local neighbourhood clear of objects. So the black hole is going to carve out an area that is largely devoid of other bodies, and particularly in the context of a gaseous planetary nebula, it’s going to swallow stuff. This will lead to a roughly spherical void around it, and a gravitational bias towards the centre of mass of the planetary nebula (i.e. radially inwards towards the sun).
- radford-neal 6y ago"Planets by definition sweep their local neighbourhood clear of objects" What makes you think that a black hole orbiting the sun is a "planet" by the definition you're using? More generally, you can't prove things about the physical world just by citing somebody's arbitrary definition of a word.