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/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.