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Invaluable information that helps me finish this saga. Thanks to all respondents. You've all been generous. Thank you. Ed G

I am a writer completing a science fiction novel involving a four foot diameter black hole (with approx 1.5 times the mass of Saturn) At one point in the story, this small black hole has sling shot past the sun, is headed outward toward the Kuiper belt & Oort Cloud. As it moves, the sun's...

My sincere thanks to those that have discussed this. Great help for an English and Computer Science major. You've brought up things I never would have considered. What a wonderful forum where less trained science-lovers like myself can go to get thoroughly thought out answers. Again, Thank You.

This is startling to me. I would never have considered such an event possible. Thank you very much.

Very helpful! Thank you PeroK

Homework Statement: I am a writer completing a science fiction novel involving a four foot diameter black hole (with approx 1.5 times the mass of Saturn) In my novel, the black hole is being drawn toward our much more massive sun. I assume the black hole would begin to consume plasma/energy...

Sorry to be slow. I didn't do the calculation myself. I asked an astrophysicist at Univ Arizona. He sent this: "Assuming the diameter is the Schwarzschild radius, then rS = 2 GM/c^2 => M = rS c^2 / 2G ~ 1e30 g. This is about 2 times of the mass of Saturn". I'll be the first to admit that my math...

It's a problem I made up myself that I'm working on. We've all seen the movie Armageddon, an asteroid coming at the Earth. What about a small black hole?

A 4 ft diameter black hole (1.5 to 2 times the mass of Saturn) is headed toward Earth. Will Earth be able to defend itself using missiles with nuclear bombs? How to calculate such a problem?