• Question: Do you think earth will ever be sucked up by a black hole?

    Asked by buddingscientist to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Not unless starts coming our way. Even if the sun suddenly turned into a black hole (which it wouldn’t) we wouldn’t get sucked in, as the gravity would be exactly the same.

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      In short no. We know of no black holes even remotely close to the Earth, and if you have read the rumours about mini-black holes made in the Large Hadron Collider swallowing the Earth, well I have no concerns about that happening either! 😉

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Nope!

      Our nearest black hole is about 20,000 light years away, and even then it’s not particularly viscous. You’d have plenty of other things to worry about before getting sucked into a black hole!

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