Five Cosmic Events That Could Kill You Before Lunch
Andy Guerriero, cracked.com: Sure, everybody has seen Armageddon and knows that if an asteroid should come hurdling toward us, we’d just have to send up a bunch of dudes to stuff a bomb inside it. Easy!
But it turns out there are a whole lot of other, less well-known threats out there in the cosmos that that could wipe us out at any moment. And we’d probably never see them coming.
#5. Stellar Black Holes: Stellar black holes are so-named because they are only “sort of” more massive than our sun, in contrast with supermassive black holes that can stomp an entire galaxy into oblivion because they feel like it.
There are thousands of these stellar black holes floating around space. The problem is, we have no way of finding them unless they interact with another stellar object and we happen to see it. One way they interact is by completely annihilating the object (in fact, that is their preferred method — they’re kind of dicks about it).
