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Old 03-01-2012, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by stardust steve View Post
i found this very interesting. What would happen(if possible) if a star were to go too close to that black hole. Would it get sucked into it? ?
It would get ripped to shreds then gradually sucked into the hole. However, the bigger the hole, the less chance of it being torn to pieces before the star crosses the event horizon. On a really large hole (several billion solar masses), the star would pass over the horizon with barely a ripple.
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