> Locally, the black hole would swallow any atoms it comes into contact with and would probably scatter nearby molecules More likely, it would go straight thro

> Locally, the black hole would swallow any atoms it comes into contact with and would probably scatter nearby molecules More likely, it would go straight through most atoms without interacting with them. They are tiny and move very fast, if you do the math the likelihood of direct, non-gravitational interactions with matter are somewhere near neutrinos, of which trillions passed through you while reading this sentence. When one does end up eating something, the most significant effect is probably that it wouldn't eat the whole atom, but either just the nucleus, freeing all the electrons, or just an electron, leaving the atom positively charged.