If the Sun were replaced by a one-solar-mass black hole,

A) we would immediately escape into deep space, driven out by its radiation.
B) all terrestrial planets would fall in immediately.
C) our clocks would all stop.
D) we would still orbit it in a period of one year.
E) life here would be unchanged.


D

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