• spooky2092
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    14 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure if we made Jupiter a black hole we’d throw off our orbit and have much bigger problems.

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      14 hours ago

      Wouldn’t a Jupiter-mass black hole have the same gravitational effects as Jupiter and absolutely nothing would be affected?

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        14 hours ago

        If you were very, very close to it, not exactly, since Jupiter’s mass is more spread out, making the gravitational pull slightly weaker at close range. But for practical purposes yeah nothing would change for us other than space debris being flung around it instead of hitting it.

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        11 hours ago

        My point was more that we’d probably have to increase the mass to be able to make it a black hole, as we don’t have the ability to compress it to a singularity.

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      Black holes aren’t vacuums, nothing would change if the mass was equivalent

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        11 hours ago

        Yes, but you’d more than likely have to increase the mass of Jupiter to make it a black hole.