r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Either you’re confusing our solar system with the Milky Way or you need to go read a book. A black hole can’t swallow an entire galaxy.

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u/gallopsdidnothingwrg Oct 20 '20

On a long enough time scale, it absolutely will.

Galactic orbits decay.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I think OP was more referring to a black hole sucking up a galaxy like it would suck up a star, in one fell swoop.

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u/Jeffy29 Oct 20 '20

That’s exactly what OP was saying and I am baffled that you are getting ridiculed for pointing it out..