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amelius ◴[] No.28231211[source]
Don't black holes suck-in all kinds of stuff all the time, making it a bad place to be for an energy plant?
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alpaca128 ◴[] No.28231469[source]
Black holes don't suck anything in. They just have very strong gravity relative to their size. So just like a space probe would drop into the sun if it got too close, things can get into an inescapable orbit around a black hole. If you can build a Dyson sphere around a star you can build one around a black hole of a similar mass.
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