Re:Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System
by greglindahl on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @10:50PM
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Not without interacting with a 3rd body, such as Jupiter.
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Re:Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System
by ars on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:20PM
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Or, apparently, if it crosses an event horizon, although I've never properly understood how that works. (Explanations I've found typically just say: "All paths from a black hole are toward the black hole."
Re:Another Interstellar Object Detected in the Solar System
by greglindahl on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:42PM
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Most things flying towards a black hole don't cross the event horizon thanks to angular momentum.
Stars tend to get torn apart, go into the accretion disk, and then eventually fall in. But we don't have a big black hole in the solar system.