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Ashley Hamer

What would happen if a black hole wandered into our solar system?

An artist's rendering of a black hole.

Black holes are massive, mostly invisible and so powerful not even light can escape them. So what would happen if one entered our solar system?

It depends on a lot of factors, including the size and distance of the black hole, experts told Live Science. But in many scenarios, not much would happen."They're not, per se, destructive," Karina Voggel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center in France, told Live Science. "It's just mass. Very compressed mass, but mass. It's not a cosmic vacuum cleaner."

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