Re:New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black ...
by hinkley on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:28PM
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So that'll depend on why the black holes arrive.
This article is about a binary system, which I would argue meets your criteria.
If the black hole were manufactured, and/or being used as a weapon, there's no reason it should hit the sun, and every reason it would hit a planet.
Now I think some of the other responses illustrated why this is not a problem if our current model of black holes is valid. The "what if" in one of those books I mentioned is "what if there was more exotic physics that allowed small black holes to be stable?"
Re:New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black ...
by raattgift on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:03PM
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Knocking a substantial number of small outer-solar-system objects onto hyperbolic orbits through the inner solar system would probably lead to a tremendous reorganization of humanity's space exploration priorities, and might achieve goals such as containment without escalating to ecocide.
Ergo, the number of planet-destroying black holes running around is likely to be small.
The much bigger risk is having Earth's orbit disrupted slightly by a passing solar-mass scale black hole. We wouldn't get much warning that such a thing was coming, but it could alter our orbit enough to get us into thermal trouble.