Ep. 680: Rogue Black Holes
Astronomy Cast
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The Road Black Hole
If a black hole goes through our system super, super fast, everything's going to go. And so things get jiggled around and that could be truly catastrophic. But it doesn't necessarily have to be where it really sucks is if it's coming along from behind and it's just going a few kilometers per second faster than us through the galaxy. As it meanders slowly through the system, it's able to pick up everything within the system and cause them to enter orbit around it or potentially eatEverything as it goes depending on how much friction it creates.
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