) Imagine that our Sun were magically and suddenly replaced by a black hole of the same mass (1 solar mass). How would Earth's orbit change?

A) Earth would almost instantly be sucked into oblivion in the black hole.
B) Earth would orbit faster, but at the same distance.
C) Earth would slowly spiral inward until it settled into an orbit about the size of Mercury's current orbit.
D) It would not change; Earth's orbit would remain the same.


D) It would not change; Earth's orbit would remain the same.

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