How many planets can fit in a black hole?

A black hole could have 1 million planets orbiting near it that are potentially capable of supporting life as we know it, an astrophysicist suggests.
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How many planets go in black hole?

“We expect more than 10,000 planets around one supermassive black hole because the total amount of dust [there] is enormous.” That's a lot of unexplored cosmic real estate. So planets could potentially form around black holes, but that's no guarantee that they offer a life-friendly environment.
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How much can fit in a black hole?

It has a mass equal to about 4 million suns and would fit inside a very large ball that could hold a few million Earths.
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What planets are in black holes?

Planet nine might be a primordial black hole

The closest confirmed black hole to Earth lies in a triple-star system called HR 6819, roughly 1,000 light-years away. It's about four times the mass of the sun — comparatively light in the scope of the universe.
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What if planet 9 is a black hole?

A group of astronomers, including Avi Loeb at Harvard University, suggested Planet Nine may be a tiny black hole somewhere out in the Oort Cloud. If Planet Nine turns out to be Black Hole Nine instead, it's probably about the size of a grapefruit but about 5 to 10 times the mass of Earth.
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Can a wormhole exist?

In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world.
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Is our Sun a black hole?

No. Stars like the Sun just aren't massive enough to become black holes. Instead, in several billion years, the Sun will cast off its outer layers, and its core will form a white dwarf - a dense ball of carbon and oxygen that no longer produces nuclear energy, but that shines because it is very hot.
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What is Planet 9 called?

What is its Name? Batygin and Brown nicknamed their predicted object "Planet Nine," but the actual naming rights of an object go to the person who actually discovers it. The name used during previous hunts for the long suspected giant, undiscovered object beyond Neptune is "Planet X."
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Can a black hole eat a planet?

Planets would be slung away into space by gravitational forces, or they would be ripped apart by the strong tidal forces of the black hole. But thankfully, the chances of this happening are very slim.
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Are black holes hot?

Black holes are freezing cold on the inside, but incredibly hot just outside. The internal temperature of a black hole with the mass of our Sun is around one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero.
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Can Earth become a black hole?

Despite their abundance, there is no reason to panic: black holes will not devour Earth nor the Universe. It is incredibly unlikely that Earth would ever fall into a black hole. This is because, at a distance, their gravitational pull is no more compelling than a star of the same mass.
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What is a white black hole?

White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that function in the opposite way to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole. White holes were long thought to be a figment of general relativity born from the same equations as their collapsed star brethren, black holes.
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Is TON 618 bigger than the Milky Way?

In the case of Ton 618, the enormous Lyman-alpha nebula surrounding it has the diameter of at least 100 kiloparsecs (320,000 light-years), twice the size of the Milky Way.
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Can humans create a black hole?

To study the phenomenon more closely, physicists in Israel managed to create a lab-grown, analogue black hole using some thousand atoms. This faux black hole exhibited all properties of a black hole in the state in which it is believed to exist in space.
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Is Pluto gone in black hole?

Explanation: Researchers from Harvard University have published a paper that explores the possibility that our solar system is home to a tiny, ancient black hole. For decades, the solar system had nine official planets, but Pluto was kicked out of the planet club and demoted to dwarf planet status.
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Does time exist in a black hole?

For outside observers, a black hole is one solidary element, and there is no proper time inside the black hole, but there is only the observed coordinate time according to our spacetime coordinates.
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Can a black hole destroy Sun?

A black hole of that size and mass would devour the Sun in a moment. But losing the Sun would be the least of our problems. Our planet could be torn apart by the tidal forces from the black hole consuming our Sun.
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How can we stop a black hole?

gets a little tricky. For a black hole, any matter entering the event horizon is added to the mass. Shoot bullets at a black hole, and you just make a slightly more massive, slightly more dangerous black hole. Detonate a nuclear bomb inside the event horizon, and you only make the black hole more massive.
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Is there a 11th planet?

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has made a formal proposal for the definition of a planet. If accepted in the IAU General Assembly in Prague, which votes on 24 August, there will be 12 rather than nine planets in the solar system.
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Is the Sun getting closer to the Earth 2021?

We are not getting closer to the sun, but scientists have shown that the distance between the sun and the Earth is changing. The sun shines by burning its own fuel, which causes it to slowly lose power, mass, and gravity. The sun's weaker gravity as it loses mass causes the Earth to slowly move away from it.
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Is there a 10th planet?

Answer: There is no known Planet X or 10th planet in our solar system. Scientists have been looking for about a hundred years. It was believed that such a planet was required to explain the orbital characteristics of the outer planets Uranus and Neptune.
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What if the Sun is blue?

Since the shortest wavelengths of light coming from the sun disperse the most and thus colour the sky blue, if the sun itself was blue, almost all the light from it would scatter in the sky and we wont be able to see the sun at all? After all, subtracting all the blue only makes the sun appear yellow.
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Can a black hole eat a black hole?

It is possible for two black holes to collide. Once they come so close that they cannot escape each other's gravity, they will merge to become one bigger black hole. Such an event would be extremely violent. Even when simulating this event on powerful computers, we cannot fully understand it.
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Can a black hole swallow a galaxy?

No. There is no way a black hole would eat an entire galaxy. The gravitational reach of supermassive black holes contained in the middle of galaxies is large, but not nearly large enough for eating the whole galaxy.
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