How Black Holes Can Kill You Even On Earth

I came across a scary idea — even when it’s super-far away, a black hole might actually kill us. OK, in case you know your cosmic neighborhood a bit (or probably just looked it up) you know that the next black hole — going by the name A0620–00 — is like 2,800 light years away and it appears highly unlikely that it’s going to do its thing from that far away…

So here’s the deal: Black holes are not just these giant ‘structures’ absorbing almost everything born of an ever destructive supernova, they actually are believed to be long-distance killer, also…

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Death From Space: How Black Holes Can Kill You Even On Earth