Can the Earth be sucked into a blackhole?

Question

I am 12 years old and I am in 6th grade. We were asked this question in school.

Answer 1

The realistic answer is no, for several reasons.
1) Our sun is too small to collapse into a blackhole. Even if it did the planets are too far away to be sucked in. Just because a star turns into a black hole doesn't mean that its gravity get any stronger. The planets would just orbit it like normal except that there would be no light coming out of it and also no heat.

2) Our galaxy spirals around a black hole and we haven't been sucked in yet. Once again, that is because a black hole is only as strong as the mass it contains. Instead it just keeps all of the stars in the galaxy orbiting around it.

3) They only way it is possible is if one of the minor galaxies which orbits our galaxy happened to collide with the Milky Way. If that were to happen the black hole in that galaxy could pass near enogh to the Earth or our solar system to suck us in.

Answer 2

I have to admit, when I first saw your question I thought it was a joke. If there was a natural black hole that was going to suck in earth tomorrow, we'd know about it. There would be massive tidal forces at work, causing earth quakes and other natural disasters, and I'm pretty sure we'd all be too busy panicking to bother going online to ask questions about it. However, I went to look it up in the news, and I think what you're referring to is the fact that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle physics laboratory is going to be turned on tomorrow. Some people worry that the LHC could create black holes. Stephen Hawking goes so far as to hope that the LHC produces black holes, since then he could prove or disprove his theories, but he puts the chances at less than 1%. All of which would be quite worrisome if it weren't for the fact that the same theories which suggest that black holes might possibly be produced also say that the black holes would immediately decay and become just a bunch of charged particles, with no harm done to the earth. Scientists are also going to be using the LHC to recreate some of the conditions that occurred at the time of the Big Bang, which is cool but again has some people worried. All of which misses the point that when the LHC gets turned on tomorrow, nothing too exciting is going to happen - they're simply going to run some tests to make sure everything is working as it should. They may do a few collisions tomorrow, but nothing that hasn't been done in other particle colliders before. They don't start on the really interesting stuff till later this year. That's when, if you want to, you can start to worry about black holes and new universes being created.

Answer 3

Y es Earth can be sucked into a black hole if our sun goes through all the stages of nucleur fusion it creates a black hole that draws in matter that surrounds it. When the matter goes into a black hole it is compacted or crushed.Our sun still has a while before it turns into a black hole, but the answer is "yes".

Answer 4

,,, we are on the middle outer rim ( our Galaxy ) of the milky way. in the middle is a black hole, at its high point in million or billions of years, that hole will eat everything in its way,including earth,,and at the end of a black holes life it gets so massive that it can;t eat anymore. then it start to spill its inside out and then we all start all over again,,,, its the GREAT DANCE,,,,this will go on forever,or until scientists think of something else,,, but and I must say BUT,,because this isn't going to happen in millions of years,,,, so I think you have time to go out and play

Answer 5

yes it can, if there's one around to do the sucking.
if light can't escape from a black hole(that's why they are called a black hole) then even the earth can't(even if the black hole is the size of a pea)
God bless,
gabe

Answer 6

One day maybe.

But there is not one we know of anywhere near us, so it could not be for many millions of years.