"Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core"

[$tevie]

A mysterious gas cloud with three times Earth’s mass is spiraling toward the supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. Expect to hear about the encounter in the coming months.

http://earthsky.org/space/get-ready-for-...-ways-core

[Jack D.]

"What will happen when it encounters the black hole? For us on Earth … nothing."



Hold on to your butts...

[N-OS X-tasy!]

[space-time]

It already happened, we're still waiting for the signal

[mrlynn]

space-time wrote:
It already happened, we're still waiting for the signal

Right, a long time ago. How many light years are we from the galactic center?

/Mr Lynn

[testcase]

When whatever is incoming reaches the caramel layer, it should slow down a lot :boink:

[freeradical]

mrlynn wrote:
[quote=space-time]
It already happened, we're still waiting for the signal

Right, a long time ago. How many light years are we from the galactic center?

/Mr Lynn

100K I think

[m.paris]

Several sources say about 25,000 LY to the center.

[space-time]

100K I think

Several sources say about 25,000 LY to the center.

OK, thanks for clarifying. I was afraid that I had to wait another 75k years to see the light. I was getting impatient