arcanum7123

arcanum7123 t1_jdvzdt1 wrote

>This will mean it will probably never form a structure like a star but even if the densities got that high

Can you explain more about this? What's to stop it forming dark planets? (I understand they're being no stars under the assumption that it can't form element/element-like particles)

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arcanum7123 t1_iv3osyk wrote

Gamma ray bursts are not formed by a black hole feeding (and definitely not one this small). You are much more likely to die to any number of other things, terrestrial or celestial, than something black hole related

If you want to live in fear of something like that be my guest, but as someone who wrote 2 papers on black holes for their degree, you'd do much better living in fear of things that 1) you have any amount of control over whether or not it'll kill you and 2) have any tangible level of a chance of actually killing you

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arcanum7123 t1_iv3f9p6 wrote

It not only has a literally immeasurably small effect on earth due to its gravity, but at 1600 light years away if it were traveling at the speed of light (which it is traveling nowhere near), it would take 1600 years to reach us

There is absolutely 0 threat to earth from this, especially in our lifetimes. There are plenty more dangerous objects in the universe as far as we're concerned. You should be more worried about the sun than that black hole

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