It’s that magical time of the eon that they swarm.
I hope it hits us.
I very much hope it doesn’t.
Tiny chance of that. When, and if, the the Milky Way collides with Andromeda, the chances are still astronomical that any stars actually collide at first. Shit might get really weird as the SMBHs start to come together and the centers of each galaxy eventually begin to merge, though.
That example was about how far things are from each other in our galaxy. The biggest problem is how much gravity is in play and how fast objects in the universe travel. An object like a planet and a blackhole only have a very narrow space to actually collide or have the planet get locked in orbit or a death spiral around a black hole. It’s more likely a planet would get accelerated and spun out on a very different trajectory when they get close together.
So, your hope of us colliding with a blackhole is very unlikely. It’s probably more likely we would get shifted into a different orbit around the sun or get kicked out of the solar system completely. If you were just wishing for hell and chaos, you would still get your wish in that regard.
Still, if we could survive the extremely deadly area around a blackhole, it would be kinda neat to fall into one. In theory, time and space is so wonky, we should be able to catch a glimpse of the end of the universe before we get crushed into an infinite point. Neat.
Really unlikely. We already have probably like a rogue mini black hole going through our solar system every decade, but space is just super empty. Along with that, black holes don’t really have a wider area of “suck”, it’s mostly just stronger at the perimeter
We already have probably like a rogue mini black hole going through our solar system every decade
This sounds fascinating. Do you have anything more on this?
There was a better link posted and discussed here on Lemmy, but I can’t seem to find it at the moment. This is a similar link:
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-09-17/tiny-black-holes-zipping-through-the-solar-system
Hahaha thanks for the laugh. Me too.