What would happen if a tiny black hole where on Earth?

The Earth would be destroyed, but the whole planet would not be swallowed up by the black hole. A black hole with a Schwarzschild radius of about a centimeter, which would make it about the size of a coin, would have about the same mass as the Earth.
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What would happen if a small black hole hit the Earth?

What would happen if an asteroid-mass black hole were to hit Earth? In short, catastrophe. The black hole would puncture our planet's surface like a hot knife through butter, but it would immediately begin to slow down because of its gravitational interaction with Earth.
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Can a tiny black hole destroy Earth?

Scientists have debunked this perception. Earth is facing no threat because no black hole is close enough to the solar system for our planet. According to NASA, even if a black hole the same mass as the sun replace the sun, Earth still would not fall in.
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What would a tiny black hole do?

As black holes are theorized to radiate energy, they will also lose mass (according to Stephen Hawking's theory, Hawking Radiation), small black holes will therefore fizz out of existence very rapidly.
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How big of a black hole would destroy the Earth?

Black hole measuring just 1mm would destroy Earth - terrifying scientist warning | Science | News | Express.co.uk.
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What if Someone (i.e Thanos) Dropped a Tiny Black Hole on Earth?



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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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 there a pink hole?

The “Pink holes” were discovered using telescopes at Parkes and Coonabarabran in the western plains of NSW between 1994 and 1998.
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Can a penny sized black hole destroy Earth?

The Earth would be destroyed, but the whole planet would not be swallowed up by the black hole. A black hole with a Schwarzschild radius of about a centimeter, which would make it about the size of a coin, would have about the same mass as the Earth.
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What are the chances of a black hole hitting Earth 2021?

There is zero chance of a black hole "hitting" the Earth. In about 4 billion years the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy.
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Are white holes real?

The short answer, unfortunately, is no. White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we've never seen one, or even seen clues that one may exist. For now, they are an idea. To put it simply, you can imagine a white hole as being a black hole in reverse.
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Can anything destroy a black hole?

Black holes are among the most destructive objects in the universe. Anything that gets too close to a black hole, be it an asteroid, planet, or star, risks being torn apart by its extreme gravitational field. By some accounts, the universe may eventually consist entirely of black holes.
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What is the nearest black hole to Earth?

Researchers believe that black holes and galaxies grow alongside each other: the larger the galaxy, the larger its black hole. The closest supermassive black hole is the one at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, some 50,000 light-years away.
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Can we survive a black hole?

Regardless of the explanation, we do know that it is highly unlikely that anyone entering a black hole would survive. Nothing escapes a black hole. Any trip into a black hole would be one way. The gravity is too strong and you could not go back in space and time to return home.
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What if we sent a nuke to the sun?

It's safe to say the nuclear bomb will have no effect at all. But actually it's even harder than that to perturb the sun. The nuclear bomb would be vaporised long before it reached the surface. It could be detonated in space somewhere near the sun.
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What would happen if we nuked Jupiter?

In short: Nuking Jupiter won't do much. As you correctly noted, there is definitely not enough oxygen in Jupiter's atmosphere to support combustion, so the bomb would not ignite the hydrogen.
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Can a nuclear bomb destroy a whole country?

Depending on its impact radius, even a Tsar bomb cannot destroy a whole country. Only a small country such as Vatican City or Monaco with land areas of 44 ha and 202 ha respectively can be completely destroyed using a nuclear weapon.
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What is a GREY hole in space?

A Q-star, also known as a grey hole, is a hypothetical type of a compact, heavy neutron star with an exotic state of matter. Such a star can be smaller than the progenitor star's Schwarzschild radius and have a gravitational pull so strong that some light, but not all light, cannot escape.
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What is a red hole?

red hole definition, red hole meaning | English dictionary

6 (U.S.) informal a small anchorage. 7 a fault (esp. in the phrase pick holes in) 8 Slang a difficult and embarrassing situation.
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How big is a miniature black hole?

Micro black holes, also called mini black holes or quantum mechanical black holes, are hypothetical tiny (<1 M ) black holes, for which quantum mechanical effects play an important role. The concept that black holes may exist that are smaller than stellar mass was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Hawking.
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Are wormholes real?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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Can we create wormholes?

To create a wormhole on Earth, we'd first need a black hole. This is problematic: creating a black hole just a centimetre across would require crushing a mass roughly equal to that of the Earth down to this tiny size. Plus, in the 1960s theorists showed that wormholes would be incredibly unstable.
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Are wormholes possible?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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