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We would most likely freeze to death. As the black hole crossed the asteroid belt we would be pulled away from the sun as it started to compete with the black
by hwillis 1y ago
We would most likely freeze to death. As the black hole crossed the asteroid belt we would be pulled away from the sun as it started to compete with the black hole's gravity. Depending how fast the black hole was moving we might die over a few months or we might freeze to death in a few days. Probably there are paths where the earth would briefly be pulled into an elliptical orbit, and then we would be burnt to a crisp as we circled back close to the sun.
- datavirtue 1y agoIn a chaos such as that we would get killed by the weather before we even realized what was happening.
- jerf 1y agoThis is the setting of one of my favorite short stories, A Pail Full of Air. Which I am delighted to note, since the last time I referenced it, appears to have fallen out of copyright, so I can link straight to it on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51461/pg51461.txt