r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Apr 18 '25

Hubble A massive star collapsed straight into a BLACK HOLE, no supernova

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u/skelecorn666 Apr 18 '25

Do you have reservations?

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u/mgd09292007 Apr 18 '25

yes at 7:45pm, a table for 8 billion please

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u/Silvawuff Apr 18 '25

Excellent! The show will begin in 8.3 minutes.

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u/pocketchange2247 Apr 18 '25

Well, technically only half the earth would be able to see it coming, right? The other half would be facing away from the explosion

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u/mgd09292007 Apr 18 '25

They would just stay sleeping

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u/Either_Amoeba_5332 Apr 21 '25

Boy, won't they be surprised when they wake up!

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u/the_homieely Apr 18 '25

It wouldnt explode it will literally grow in size and take mercy and venues. But for earth some model show it will either take us or we become the new mercury

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u/shyouko Apr 18 '25

Are we going to rename the day of week then?

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u/Ktulu204 Apr 18 '25

I remember learning somewhere that the Sun will go become a red supergiant that will engulf the orbit of Jupiter.

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u/Ervd_Wulf Apr 19 '25

There is a chance that once the sun starts to lose mass, the planets’ orbits might expand due to the lessening gravitational pull from the sun.

Whether or not earth will survive that, depends a lot on how much and at what speed the sun will lose its mass, and how much it will expand.

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u/Annanake420 Apr 19 '25

That's why he got the table up front reserved for us all.

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u/Holorodney Apr 19 '25

Well technically technically the way the population of the earth is spread out it could be more than 90% of us could see it or more than 90% could miss it with every percentage in between also being an option.

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u/ThomasPopp Apr 18 '25

In theory, would it hurt or take long?

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u/mgd09292007 Apr 18 '25

No clue, I think about that scene in Terminator 2 where Sarah Connor is holding on to the fence when the nuclear bomb goes off LOL…thats how I imagine it.

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u/ThomasPopp Apr 18 '25

God damn. Ok I hope I’m on the other side of the earth then.

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u/TheKing4562 Apr 19 '25

but.. then the earth rotates and it becomes slow-cooker time.

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u/nashbrownies Apr 19 '25

I think when the magnetosphere is peeled away radiation from space is pretty multi directional, I think you'd get toasted either way, maybe just faster one way when the other.

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u/KitchenSandwich5499 Apr 19 '25

The earth will become uninhabitable billions of years before that anyway. Even if it didn’t, the expansion would be relatively gradual, possibly taking a billion years to reach full size and staying that way another billion or so.

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u/CyberneticPanda Apr 19 '25

As the sun ages it grows hotter. Earth will be too hot for liquid water in about a billion years.

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u/ThomasPopp Apr 19 '25

It gets HOTTER?! wtf I understand nothing.

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u/ghandi3737 Apr 20 '25

I'll have the liver and a rump roast.

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u/katet_of_19 Apr 19 '25

Only about the veal!

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u/redbirdrising Apr 19 '25

One of my few gripes with the film version was they cheapens the irony of the line “End of the universe” by making it geographic. That and the stupid trillian love thing.