what would happen if we nuked the sun or the moon, or any planet? and has a black hole ever been found?
2007-09-09 16:07:00 · 3 answers · asked by pokemonguyjosh 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No nuclear weapons we have (even if we used them all) would do anything to the sun.
If we used every weapon on Earth today and exploded them on the moon, we would likely break it apart (or at least break off huge chunks) which would likely end up crashing to Earth and destroying all life.
Black holes have been detected in the centres of most larger galaxies.
As well, other smaller (solar-mass) black holes have been detected in our galaxy - these have been detected because they have ordinary stars as close orbital companions and we can see the wobble in these star's orbits as well as the emission of xrays and gamma rays from the accretion disk material spiralling into the black holes.
2007-09-09 16:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Sun IS a nuke. The reaction in it's core is putting out the same amount of energy as 4 BILLION nukes exploding every SECOND! One more sent in a missile from Earth would make no difference at all. The Moon and planets are also too big to destroy with a mere nuke, or even a million of them. But hypothetically, if you destroyed the Sun, Earth would be doomed since all life depends on the Sun. Loss of the Moon would mean the loss of the tides, which probably are important to keep the oceans from becoming stagnant stinking icky pools. It is also believed that the Moon stabilizes the Earth's axial tilt over long time scales, like millions of years. Loss of the other planets would be no big deal, except possibly for Jupiter, whose influence is though to keep Earth's orbit stable. Jupiter also sweeps up lots of asteroids and comets that might otherwise hit Earth.
And yes, black holes have been found. There is a big one at the core of the Milky Way galaxy. We can't see it but know it is there by watching stars orbit VERY close to it and going VERY fast. Their speed and small orbit can only be explained by a mass greater than millions of stars packed into a space smaller than our solar system. It must be a black hole because we can't see that mass.
2007-09-09 17:06:15 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing would happen in either case.
No black hole has ever been detected,it remains a theoretical entity,of very dubious viability.
2007-09-10 02:28:07 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋