• @[email protected]
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    41 day ago

    If we could make Jupiter a black hole, would that be stable enough to not radiate away? Other big body we have access to is the sun and I feel we would suffer more side effects of turning that into a hole compared to Jupiter

      • @[email protected]
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        823 hours ago

        Replacing Jupiter with an equally massive black hole shouldn’t make a difference. We’d only have one bright dot less in the night sky.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 hour ago

          Except squid aliens will develop a way to move it and annihilate several planets on its way to Super Earth. RIP Angel’s Venture.

          (This is currently happening in helldivers 2, we turned a super bug infested planet into a black hole and now the illuminate are steering it towards earth)

      • @[email protected]
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        223 hours ago

        The sun is debatable, since I think we already use it’s photons both for photosynthesis in plants, heat (although we could get infrared warmth from the hole) as well as other benefits

        Why shouldn’t we holify Jupiter? It would be a testament to our technological progress as well as helping us study black holes "close"ish by rather than in labs

        • @[email protected]
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          322 hours ago

          Sometimes our technological progress makes us do things we think are a good idea at the time. Then like years, decades, centuries, millennia later we realize it was not such a good idea after all.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 day ago

      I’m pretty sure if we made Jupiter a black hole we’d throw off our orbit and have much bigger problems.

      • mbfalzar
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        351 day ago

        Wouldn’t a Jupiter-mass black hole have the same gravitational effects as Jupiter and absolutely nothing would be affected?

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          If you were very, very close to it, not exactly, since Jupiter’s mass is more spread out, making the gravitational pull slightly weaker at close range. But for practical purposes yeah nothing would change for us other than space debris being flung around it instead of hitting it.

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          121 hours ago

          My point was more that we’d probably have to increase the mass to be able to make it a black hole, as we don’t have the ability to compress it to a singularity.