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From Earth's perspective, you wouldn't see anything interesting except for the sun vanishing. Gravitationally, all that matters is the absolute mass, so all the
by utensil4778 2y ago
From Earth's perspective, you wouldn't see anything interesting except for the sun vanishing. Gravitationally, all that matters is the absolute mass, so all the dynamics of the solar system stay the same.
A black hole of 1 solar mass has a radius of something like 3km. Totally invisible from Earth. You probably wouldn't even see any gravitational lensing. All we would see is the sun there one moment, and then nothing the next.
Life on Earth would continue for a while, but the planet would eventually freeze over.
So, nothing interesting. The sun vanishes and then some time later you freeze and/or starve to death.
- jebarker 2y agoAh, thanks for the explanation. They key thing I didn't realize is that it'd only be 3km!