I heard there's a black hole at the center of our Galaxy...?

Question

What long-term problems does this present if any? Is there any possibility of it one day impacting Earth?

Answer 1

The centre of the galaxy is no longer thought to be a black hole.
But, if there was one there, how could it impact the Earth if it is in the centre of the Galaxy? Also, if the Solar system started to fall towards the centre of the galaxy, it would take hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions to reach it, in any case, we would be safe, as the human race would probably have become extinct well before then.

Answer 2

Most likely, yes.
Although, it is not like a regular black hole. They are more like cousins of the black hole, although they are given the name "super black hole".
They are black holes that have gained 100,000-1,000,000,000 times the mass of the sun. They are massive, although it takes quite a time before a peice of matter or energy passes over the event horizon. This happens because they can lie dorment for billions of years.



Any way, yes it does present problems for Earth in the long term, if only the Earth were frozen in time and nothing went on inside a certain field of the Earth. This would need to happen because the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy is currently dorment... meaning that unless it started going dorment only 5 billion years after the big bang, most likely only a couple of million years after it started feeding as a super black hole, which the odds of are extremely unlikley. Another reason is that Our solar system is in the orion arm of the galaxy, several ten thousand light years. So by the time the Earth gets destroyed by the super massive black hole(unless we are frozen in time), we will have perfected space travel and have imigrated to another planet.

Answer 3

Yes, there is a black hole in the center of the milky way galaxy and it has a mass of several million suns. Every large galaxy has a black hole in the center and they are thought to be critical in the formation of galaxies. The process is not yet known.

The black hole poses no threat to us. Our earth will vaporize in several billion years when our sun turns into a red giant. Both of us will miss that.
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Answer 4

Many people think there is, but you dont have to be afrait. A black hole is not more dangerous than a Planet with the mass of the black hole. A black hole with the mas of our son would for example be 10km big, and if u would swap sutch a black hole for our son, than there would no change for us. Accept that we would have no day, only night, but we would not be eatend by the black hole or anything like that.

Answer 5

No. The earth will be gone in about 2-3 billion years. Our sun will not be pulled into that black hole for prob over 50 billion years (if ever)

Answer 6

there is a great possibility that there is a black hole in every galaxy. it appears that our sun will live out its natural life, that is to say it will exhaust its nuclear fuel and go red giant and reduce our planet to a cinder and become a white dwarf long before it is crushed to the singularity of our galaxy's black hole. that should assuage any fears you might entertain.

Answer 7

Yes, it's there. Scientists have seen confirming evidence. But it's not a threat to Earth, anymore than a vacuum cleaner is an immediate threat to the dust on the other side of the room. The black hole exerts a tremendous gravitational pull on objects in its area but it's still gravity. It diminishes with distance. Anything in a stable orbit around it will remain in orbit. That includes our solar system.

Answer 8

Yes, there is a massive black hole at the sentre of the Milky Way, our galaxy

Answer 9

If earth was to be sucked into a black hole , get hit by a comet just as big as earth, or if the sun implodes we would probably have 0.3 seconds to realize it before everything was gone so I wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 10

Hello. There is a possibility but this event would happen an absolutely incalculable time later in the galaxy. Nothing to fear.