@LiquidPrince: The sun isn't large enough to create a blackhole, but rather it will end it's life with a large supernova, burning up Earth with it. This is like a billion years ahead of us, so IZ COOL.
Our planet probably won't survive for long if a black hole decided to appear near it. It would probably be an horrific death, considering that the planet would be torn asunder and we'll be witnessing it until we're killed.
" @LiquidPrince: The sun isn't large enough to create a blackhole, but rather it will end it's life with a large supernova, burning up Earth with it. This is like a billion years ahead of us, so IZ COOL. "
It's not large enough to supernova, either. Rather, it will expand into a red giant, and then shrink into a white dwarf.
Our planet can, and theoretically will be swallowed by a black hole in approximately 6 billion years when our galaxy (The Milky Way) becomes too close to our nearest neighbour galaxy (Alpha Centuri). When this galactic takes place it is theorizes that the gravitational pull will cause the two galaxies to orbit around one another until eventually the two black holes get close enough to one another and create a super black hole, which in theory, will cause more gravitational pull than our solar system has in its current state which will cause our solar system to be destroyed. Of course this is just one of a few possibilities that could happen in this event. We could also be smashed into by all the chaotic planets and stars of two galaxies flying around. Or, a slim possibility is that our planet could land on an axis within this new galaxy that would allow for us to orbit around the new gigantic black hole. But that would almost certainly result in the destruction of all life. So one way or another, we're screwed. But by then we will no doubt have gone through many many global extinction and we stand very little chance of living through all the lava pools, asteroid strikes, ice ages, as well as possible global flooding.
Oh! And when people fall into a black hole they die by a process called spaghettification (that is the technical term) which their every subatomic bond is torn asunder by the gravitational pull of the black hole and since the black hole also pulls time into itself this process, which happens in flash from a observational point of view, for the victim its a process that takes much much longer and I would guess is crazy painful. Also, since the bend in time, the longer extremities are destroy before any vital organs are really in any place which would kill the victim.
Also, in like 60 billion years our universe will expand to the point that our every atom and subatomic bond in the entire universe will be stretched until those bonds will snap. Since the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and we have no idea why, and obviously no new matter is being created soo... yeah.
All this is theory and subject to change depending on future discovery in string theory or possible the discovery of dark matter.
Either way, we're just temporary. Also, I like astronomy... I hope everyone learned something and didn't just tl;dr.
" Our planet can, and theoretically will be swallowed by a black hole in approximately 6 billion years when our galaxy (The Milky Way) becomes too close to our nearest neighbour galaxy (Alpha Centuri). When this galactic takes place it is theorizes that the gravitational pull will cause the two galaxies to orbit around one another until eventually the two black holes get close enough to one another and create a super black hole, which in theory, will cause more gravitational pull than our solar system has in its current state which will cause our solar system to be destroyed. Of course this is just one of a few possibilities that could happen in this event. We could also be smashed into by all the chaotic planets and stars of two galaxies flying around. Or, a slim possibility is that our planet could land on an axis within this new galaxy that would allow for us to orbit around the new gigantic black hole. But that would almost certainly result in the destruction of all life. So one way or another, we're screwed. But by then we will no doubt have gone through many many global extinction and we stand very little chance of living through all the lava pools, asteroid strikes, ice ages, as well as possible global flooding. Oh! And when people fall into a black hole they die by a process called spaghettification (that is the technical term) which their every subatomic bond is torn asunder by the gravitational pull of the black hole and since the black hole also pulls time into itself this process, which happens in flash from a observational point of view, for the victim its a process that takes much much longer and I would guess is crazy painful. Also, since the bend in time, the longer extremities are destroy before any vital organs are really in any place which would kill the victim. Also, in like 60 billion years our universe will expand to the point that our every atom and subatomic bond in the entire universe will be stretched until those bonds will snap. Since the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and we have no idea why, and obviously no new matter is being created soo... yeah. All this is theory and subject to change depending on future discovery in string theory or possible the discovery of dark matter. Either way, we're just temporary. Also, I like astronomy... I hope everyone learned something and didn't just tl;dr. "
Hold on. First of all, Alpha Centuari is not only a very good game, but a star, not a galaxy. It's our nearest star. Our nearest Galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy which, yes, is heading toward the Milky Way.
However, the Milky Way is one of the oldest galaxies, and has already absorbed other, smaller galaxies in the past. When Andromeda does collide with the Milky Way, it will be a spectacular event, but it won't affect us in the way you described. The black holes will have little more effect on us than speeding up the disk of the galaxy a little bit. The only 'problem' is that we may be flung out from the galaxy, which wouldn't really affect the Solar Systems structure.
Here's a relevant paragraph from Wiki:
Two scientists with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics stated that when, and even whether, the two galaxies collide will depend on Andromeda's transverse velocity. Based on current calculations they predict a 50% chance that in a merged galaxy the solar system will be swept out three times farther from the galactic core than it is currently located. They also predict a 12% chance that the Solar System will be ejected from the new galaxy some time during the collision. Such an event would have no adverse effect on the system and chances of any sort of disturbance to the Sun or planets themselves may be remote.
Without intervention, by the time that the two galaxies collide, the surface of the Earth will have already become far too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life, which is currently estimated to occur in about 1 billion years due to gradually increasing warmth of the Sun.
Right right, Andromeda, sorry, didn't proof read enough. Perhaps I exaggerated some on the affects of the collision, but no one would've been around to call me on it anyways, hahah. One way or another, if anything is around to view this event its going to rearrange a lot of this shit in our sky, which I'm pretty excited for. But, again... we're going to be so dead from things on our own planet. Depressing how much we know (or theorize) and so little we will able to observe.
Like everything else, Earth can be swallowed by a black hole.
Most people will panic and then die. Peter Higgs will find his boson... and then die. Stephen Hawking and his followers will take the opportunity to directly observe Hawking Radiation... and then die. In a magnificent attempt to trumpet his victory over Hawking, Leonard Susskind will take a spaceship and fly away from the black hole, observe Stephen Hawking fall endlessly into the the event horizon until he seems frozen in time, and cheer as Hawking dies.
If you took all of the mass of every human being and put it into one block, then put it at the density of a black hole, it would be about 1cm^3 in volume. Imagine the mass of 1 billion suns at that density, the numbers are so big physics can't explain it.
If Earth was sucked into a black hole every single atom would be ripped from each other, and considering gravity is so much weaker than the other 3 forces in the universe that's crazy. Before that happens earth will break apart and everything will die.
Unfortunately, there aren't any super massive black holes near by...
Our star will turn into a Red Giant and basically burn our planet, then it will form into a white dwarf. No supernova and black hole to swallow us for our solar system :(
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