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I’m sure that would give off huge amounts of gamma radiation.


Only when they cleared their orbits, around the beginning of the solar system. Doubt they'd see much impact now.


Can't reply directly to the child.

The earth is quite larger than a black hole with an earth mass. Also the earth has a huge atmosphere to help capture things.

A black hole with the same mass as the earth would be almost impossible to hit in comparison (9mm). No atmosphere to slow things down, very hard to hit, and you have to come within 1.5 * the radius before you can't escape without thrust.

So sure, some dust would be capture, but nothing anywhere close to what the earth captures a day.


If you click on the time of the child comment it’ll open that thread separately and you can reply there. Also how you save comments.

Someone told me the other day thought I’d pay it forward!


The time of the child comment? Where is that? I don't see times with comments.


Usually "x hours ago". But isn't there a reply below each comment anyway?


In very busy threads it gets hidden for very recent comments. Or something like that, I don't know the exact algorithm.


Earth is hit by a couple dozen tons of space material a day.




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