what would happen if earth got swallowed by a black hole
Either Earth would career out of its orbit, spinning out of the solar system, or in the opposite direction, toward the sun, and we'd suffer a deadly warming. In either scenario, a black hole closing on Earth would cause our home planet to be literally ripped apart and swallowed whole. In a contest between a black hole and the Earth, Tyson says, Earth would lose.t would be a bad day for the solar system if we got visited by a black hole, says Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. In our vast galaxy there are billions upon billions of stars, each of which is at a different point in its life cycle.