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[–] cave@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The PBS spacetime youtube channel posted a video on this a few weeks ago. https://youtu.be/Q6kJaMf3Lgo

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It depends on the mass. I guess I have to RTFA.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Exactly - a stellar-mass black hole would orbit inside consuming matter slowly (taking millions of years to eat the sun), while a supermassive one would just swollow our sun instantly like a cosmic snack.

One of the space-related channels I listen to did a "theoretical star" breakdown in one of his vids a few years ago, so honestly it's weird hearing that actual scientists have done something with it, not because I somehow believe this youtuber came up with the theory, but because I figured it was more "this is technically possible but real scientists don't think it could happen, but it's interesting channel content"

https://youtu.be/kqQ0e0twSgY?si=ZbMJyDA-y6uVoYaU&t=5m01s

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You need a time traveling liar named Severian to fix it.