if there is even just one blackhole, wouldnt it just keep on consuming matter and eventually consume everything?
In: Planetary Science
The gravity of a black hole isn’t any different than any other celestial body. It consumes whatever falls into it, *just like the Sun does,* or any other star, or the Earth. It’s perfectly normal for matter, or whole solar systems, to be in stable orbits around a supermassive black hole for billions of years.
It’s theorized that supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies will eventually consume their entire galaxies, in like… trillions of years, but this is purely in “theories about the end of the universe” territory, and depends on so much that we don’t know about dark energy and the expansion of space.
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