8 Minutes

Wouldn't you see the effect on the moon?

If I understand that right, gravity also moves in space at the speed of light, therefore Earth will keep on orbiting for 8min around nothing?

It goes to 9 minutes from 8, since every single communication gadget will yell out that the sun has disappeared as reports come in from the other side of the earth.

That is actually correct. The difference of being on the opposite side that faces the sun is just a few thousandths of a second, but it is there.

Now I am curious, somebody explain. if it just stopped burning, would we know after 8 mins, if we lived on the opposite side?

I'm more interested in how long before we freeze to death.

How long will the earth's atmosphere hold onto its heat?

The moon would disappear though, so you'd notice by looking at the sky if it wasn't obstructed by clouds.

But we do have Twitter now.

If the sun disappears when? According to GR's conception of simultaneous events, it disappears immediately.

Technically true since the daytime side will know first.

Well they're not entirely wrong... I mean I turn off my notifications when I go to sleep.

unless you're sleeping - 8 minutes and maybe 30 seconds to start seeing posts online, 10 minutes to start getting news about it

All we can see is 8 minutes into the sun's past.

In about 8 minutes and 20 seconds, we would lose the Sun’s gravitational force. Namely, gravitational waves travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second or 299,000 kilometers per second). This also means that we would be in complete darkness 8 minutes after the Sun disappears

https://curiousmatrix.com/what-would-happen-if-the-sun-disappeared/