Just to add some formality to it, the original commenter might want to look up the shell theorem for classical mechanics and Birkhoff’s theorem for general relativity.
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shutz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoIt’s not density, it’s mass. A mass of 1kg compressed to the density of the Sun’s core would pull the Earth with just as much force as a 1kg ball of styrofoam.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
And is the Sun was replaced with a black hole of the same mass, the Earth would just keep on rotating around it without issues, if slightly frozen
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Xkcd did a what if on a black hole moon (getting it to collapse into one may be impossible, but a black hole the mass of the moon is theoretically stable), and it has the same conclusion, except just slightly colder instead of slightly frozen. And by slightly, I mean almost imperceptible.
what-if.xkcd.com/129/
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I mean, the Sun also contributes slightly more heat to the Earth compared to the Moon. And by slightly, I mean the difference between cold and frozen