Black holes are massive, mostly invisible and so powerful not even light can escape them. So what would happen if one entered our solar system?
It depends on a lot of factors, including the size and distance of the black hole, experts told Live Science. But in many scenarios, not much would happen.”They’re not, per se, destructive,” Karina Voggel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center in France, told Live Science. “It’s just mass. Very compressed mass, but mass. It’s not a cosmic vacuum cleaner.”
If a black hole did wander into our solar system, the largest effects would be gravitational. And those effects would depend on the mass of the black hole.
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