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Man we are so small. Like one of these in the wrong direction could just incinerate our galaxy.
There’s growing speculation that 13.767 billions years may be the earliest that the universe can support life, due to events like this. The universe had to expand, a lot, to get to a place where life had a chance to evolve, and not get obliterated by these types of events.
Plus our galaxy may be in a void. A really big one at that:
From: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/does-milky-way-live-cosmic-void/
So the fact that our black hole (Sagittarius A*) hasn’t done this, and that we’re far away from other black holes that have done this, just might be why you’re reading this reply.
Let’s toast to our existence in the backwaters of our galaxy and the KBC void! 🥂
It’s a good thing shit is so far apart.