I need help to describe the time it would take earth to orbit the collapsed....please take a look at the picture. Thanks!?!

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Dwight
Dec 16, 2017

It would still take 365 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds (just like it does now).

Explanation:

This is a bit of a misleading question in that the answer depends on realizing the Newton was able to prove (through an enormous effort) that the force of gravity does not depend on the size of the attracting object (the sun, here) but only on its mass.

So, if our sun could collapse to become a black hole (relax! it cannot - not big enough), this would not affect the orbit of the Earth at all!

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