What If the Solar System Orbited a Black Hole?

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What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we'd be sucked into a parallel universe, or maybe even the future. But in reality, it wouldn't be nearly that fun. Instead, our planet would be ripped apart, piece by piece, starting with our atmosphere. So what if we moved a little further back? Instead of the black hole being right beside us, we move it to the center of our Solar System. Would our planet still be destroyed? And what would that do to our Solar System as a whole?
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What If: What If the Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? Me: Lemme guess, we all die.

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Most of the video refers to Replacing the Sun with black hole. It would be better if it would be named "What if Black Hole replaced Sun" (When you think about this scenario and Title of this video for a while, you will come into a realisation that creators of this video don't consider Sun to be part of the Solar System), and Solar System orbits a Black Hole (Sun Orbits a Black Hole while Rest of the Solar System orbits Sun itself).

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