Saturday, September 10, 2011

What would happen if a huge star exploded next to a smaller black hole?

What if a star was super massive and a black hole (which would be smaller) was next to it and the star dies (which then explodes) ((I think it's called supernova)). Would that star destroy the black hole or would the black hole just suck it all in?|||No. If the massive star was that close to a BH then it will have been consumed by the BH long before it had a chance to explode. But lets say it was outside the Event horizon, then the massive star would itself likely become a BH (or a Neutron star). Anything thrown at the BH will have been consumed if it ventured across the event Horizon.





Edit: Yes stars can orbit a BH. Remember the BH is just Mass, like any other object. ie if our sun was replaced by a BH of the same mass as our sun then nothing in the solar system would change (other than the fact we would have no light)|||lol|||You can't destroy a black hole, no matter how much of an explosion is used, whatever crossed the event horizon would just be sucked in. Yes stars can orbit black holes, in fact, we are now, our sun orbits Sagittarius A* a super massive black hole.|||No, rather, they might just fuse into a bigger black hole. After a supernova, the star will most likely turn into a black hole.

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