What If Earth Were Sucked Into a Black Hole?

Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this stellar black hole and many others like it. There are approximately 100 million of them out there in our galaxy that we know of. They are the remnants of supernovae, which occur when stars 10 to 20 times larger than our Sun collapse in on themselves. Could a black hole devour us all one day? There are millions of them out there just waiting. And if we happened to make a black hole accidentally, well, you better fasten your seatbelts. Things are going to really suck! Quite literally. What would we see if we got pulled into a black hole? Could Earth orbit the Sun and a black hole? Would we survive spaghettification? What would happen if we get past the event horizon?

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[superj]

Props to the camera man risking his life for all these crazy shots ✊✊

[faizvohra]

This channel teaches me more than my school

[leilanurena]

1. The end of everything.
2. no one would be alive to witness it

[beaniebootown_]

me: wanting to learn about black holes,
also me: terrified of black holes

[JustTryingToChillOut]

The scariest part is that not even sci-fi movies have had such destructing plots, yet this is the actual reality.

[b.namita]

Your last words scared me the be we are inside a black hole already"
🤪🤪😬

[connorcarrillo]

I think for most of these what ifs, the alternative questions is "How many ways can humans go extinct?"

[PootieTang]

Crazy how we could all just disappear into a black hole the size of a peanut and I’m worried about making it to work

[TaskForce_]

I like how they finish every Cool theory of theirs with *Now that's a story for another What If*

[CringeModeActivated]

This channel is the most professional, interesting and educational channel i’ve ever come across. Love your videos!

[DarkninjaGD]

I love how specific he was with the number of asteroids

[schewberrycake]

this channel never fail to give me anxiety, but I can't stop watching.

[TheCursedDay]

Makes you wonder if there are other civilizations out there that have had something catastrophic like this happen to their planet.

[Kpapa]

Every answer from What If: "It will kill you."
Me: Only if I die!



What if: Yes, that's what killing you means...

[californiadoll]

Suffocating from no oxygen, while feeling yourself being burnt alive & feeling your body being squeezed to death. Wow, most horrible death.

[haleykatherine]

I love how cheerfully this guy talks about the earth being eaten by a black hole, and all of us dying, that's hilarious🙃

[srivathsan]

"Things are really going to suck. Literally" 🤣😂😂 Loved that.

[crazymeteorites]

I actually like how you show the gravity start to stretch and rip apart the object that’s pretty cool

[CrimsonRose]

The fact that the word “spaghettification” is a word has made my day 😂

[darkslayer]

The fact our universe has shit happen that can mess with space time on such a scale is truly incredible.