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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
Even in countries using SI units there are exceptions in aviation and nautics.
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
@StevenGubkin They who only know imperial/American units would have to use converters for all the used units.
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
You can blame both either the metric or the imperial unit's use for that. I'd say they shouldn't have used metric units in America. If there were no metrication efforts, this wouldn't have happened.
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
You may hate non-metric units but that's no reason not to convert for English-speaking folks (who're probably a multitude on SE).
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How do we know that 2MASS J0523-1403 is a red dwarf?
Can't we somehow determine whether a star is fusing hydrogen or deuterium and/or also lithium?
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Source of red in earth's photographs
@MikeG I think it was black-and-white and it's actually upside down. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/…
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
@userLTK If it would become stuck inside the Sun it would be a stellar merger that all in all would have more mass, but eventually the entire merger would become a stellar black hole, wouldn't it?
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
@fasterthanlight Right, this is what I mean by above comment.
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
"masses and passes" is pretty weird
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
@fasterthanlight It doesn't necessarily have to be the center of the Sun, it doesn't have to go through the Sun's core (but it can). I wonder about multiple options, but in the core there's the most mass of course.
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What if a primordial black hole went through the Sun?
Note that the question assumes the black hole goes through the Sun's polar regions so that it doesn't meddle with the planet's orbits.
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How would the sky look if Earth orbited a red giant at a safe distance?
The Sun appears yellow through the Earth's atmosphere and whiter in outer space. Near the horizon such as during sunset, the Sun looks orange because you see it through lots of atmosphere. That's the reason why the Moon looks yellow near the horizon. A red giant would probably look orange-ish both from the Earth and from space. Betelgeuse (a red supergiant) actually looks orange-ish in the nightsky.
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Does a gravitational lens around a body look 3-dimensional?
@WayfaringStranger What do you mean by 'not spherical'? White dwarves, neutron stars and quark stars are spherical. Do you mean black holes / singularities?
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