is it just me or is NASA weirdly aggressive in their article about black holes?
can a black hole destroy the earth?
no, you idiot.
black holes aren’t planet gluttons, you bitch.
and the earth isn’t some weak-ass planet that would just fall in to a black hole like a sucker.
and that dumbass sun that we’ve got isn’t big enough to make a black hole like other stars.
you fool.
This reads like an exhausted doctor explaining that no, you fucking moron, vaccines do not cause autism.
This reminds me of David Brin’s Earth, where they create and accidentally drop a small black hole into the center of the earth where it just orbits the core sucking up matter but not changing the planet’s overall mass in a way noticeable at the surface
That one actually would destroy the earth eventually though if it was large enough to start sucking rather than evaporate immediately.
There’s a couple other SF stories with the same premise (A Hole in Space by Larry Niven and one I’ve heard about on the moon) where the black hole bounces around sucking up mass for months or years and eventually the outer layers of the planet collapse downwards since the material below them is no longer supporting them; those ones got it right. You wouldn’t notice it at the surface at first though.
I think before it got that far they made a new one calculated to eventually eject more mass than it took in, dropped it in too, and used it as a lens to fire gravitational waves at the first one and knock it past orbit
But not before this woman used gravitational waves set to the resonant frequency of the human body focused through the hole to depopulate whole swaths of earth and also there was an AI that was a dragon made of stars that you communicated with using microphones pressed against your throat so you subvocalized to it?
