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TL;DR is Earth getting sucked into a black hole or not?

• donclark 6y ago
  ...and what are the possible timeframes/timelines of this event?
  • dylan604 6y ago
    tomorrow at 3:47 local
• ttul 6y ago
  No. A black hole could orbit us at the distance of the moon and so long as its mass was similar to that of the moon, it would have no greater effect on our lives than the moon does.
  • jcims 6y ago
    Gravitationally anyway.
    • zbrozek 6y ago
      I'd like a Randall Munroe what if on this.
      • jcims 6y ago
        Ask and you shall receive: https://what-if.xkcd.com/129/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/129/
        • imglorp 6y ago
          Nice. He answered most of my questions except one. How big does some object need to be to cause harm to Earth as it gets consumed by the black hole moon? Also, I guess we also need to talk about spin and how the accretion disk and quasar radiation beam are oriented to say if it's pointed at Earth or not.