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If our Sun instantly disappeared, would Earth be instantly flung out of the Sun's gravitational pull, or would it take the same amount of time that light takes to travel to Earth for affect to occur, and would we notice, assuming the lack of sunlight wasn't an issue?

by /u/Mathias97035 in /r/askscience

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