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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Black holes aren't like magnets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Boy are you wrong

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about the comic made you think it was implying that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I think they're implying that a black hole the mass of a person has the same gravitational attraction that the person had before collapsing (negligible).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right. Magnets only work on ferrous metals. Black holes will suck anything in, even light.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Saying they suck things in isn't really correct, unless you want to also say that the sun is constantly sucking Earth toward it. It's just gravity.

Also, magnets don't only work on ferrous metals. Magnets push electrons through copper loops in generators and that's how we have electricity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

More accurately things fall into black holes, but we're just talking about a comic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Neither is gravity. What's your fucking point?