Probably a dumb question but at those energies would we be risking de-orbiting the black hole with such a maneuver?

api 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s hard to visualize how weird and extreme black holes are.

A black hole with the mass of the Moon would be smaller than a BB but would have the mass and inertia of the Moon. It would be basically immovable as far as we are concerned. Chuck stuff at it all day and its trajectory change would be so small we probably wouldn’t be able to measure it.

	▲	BriggyDwiggs42 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That makes sense, thanks!

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dtech 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, for the same reason slingshotting on a planetary body now has no significant effect on it. The mass difference is too enormous.

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adgjlsfhk1 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

no. if it has the mass of a planet, it has the inertia of a planet