What Would Happen if The Sun is Aligned with The Galactic Centre?

Poondru Prithvinath Reddy
5 min readNov 29, 2021

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Mayan Calendar and Rig Veda Predict Differently of Rare Astronomical Event.

The sun (and the rest of our solar system) is about 1/3 the distance from the center of the Milky Way galaxy to its outer edges and the sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. And it’s located in a smaller spiral arm, between two large arms, called the Orion Arm. The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years and the Sun is located about 28,000 light-years from the Galactic Center.

The planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. One orbit of the Earth takes one year. Meanwhile, our entire solar system — our sun with its family of planets, moon, asteroid and comets — orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our sun and solar system move at about about 500,000 miles an hour (800,000 km/hr) in this huge orbit. So in 90 seconds, for example, we all move some 12,500 miles (20,000 km) in orbit around the galaxy’s center. Even at this blazing orbital speed, it takes the sun approximately 225–250 million years to complete one journey around the galaxy’s center. This amount of time for us to orbit the center of the galaxy is called a cosmic year.

Astronomers believe that supermassive black holes lie at the center of virtually all large galaxies, even our own Milky Way and astronomers are confident that the Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, 28,000 light-years from the Solar System, in a region called Sagittarius A.The black holes result from the collapse of massive stars and the star clusters then sink to the center of the galaxy, where the intermediate-mass black holes merge to form a supermassive black hole. Another feature of our galaxy is that it hosts a black hole weighing some four million times the sun’s mass.

There are different claims about why this astronomical event of our sun aligning with the centre of Milky Way galaxy foretell us bad things, but they all boil down to the belief that the Sun and Earth becoming aligned with the black hole in the galactic center allows some kind of massive gravitational pull on Earth. Also, they highlighted and warned that the galactic alignment of Sun could bring solar flares, reversal of Earth’s magnetic field, etc.

But if the Earth moved to the center together with all its inhabitants due to the galactic alignment, you’d find yourself very unlucky. Earth’s magnetosphere would not be able to protect you from space radiation blasting from all directions and this could change the Earth’s climate.

There was a great frenzy about the end of the world on 21st December 2012 according to the Mayan Calendar which ends on that day and people thought doomsday will happen because the Mayan calendar ends there. But, it is believed that in 2012 something is going to happen.

Actually on Dec 21, 2012 the astronomical event of Sun, Earth, and Milky Way galaxy alignment allowing us to see the black hole which is believed to be the center of our galaxy. In the center of our Galaxy there is a black hole, and this black hole is only visible from earth 4 times every 25,800 years. The last time it was seen or would’ve been seen on a fall equinox 6,450 years ago. The Mayans were not the only ones to notice something in the sky. Nostradamus wrote many prophesies, including the one concerned the end of the world as he saw a “celestial cross” in the sky and it is formed by the crossing of the north and south celestial poles. It does also indicate that we (earth) will be near by black hole, some drastic changes will be seen.

Ancient Sanskrit texts describe a cyclical multiverse in which the universe emerges from a cosmic egg (Brahmanda), and expands outward from an infinite point (bindu) for billions of years before collapsing and being born again, foreshadowing many modern cosmological theories. The Hindu Rigveda, written in India around the 12th Century B.C., describes a cyclical or oscillating universe in which a “cosmic egg”, or Brahmanda, containing the whole universe (including the Sun, Moon, planets and all of space) expands out of a single concentrated point .

In Hinduism, cosmology refers to the ideas Hindus have about the universe and how it works. Hindus believe that time goes around in a cycle and that it is continually destroyed and recreated. Each cycle of time is known as a yuga and the current period is Kali Yuga, the last of four Yuga that make up the current age. The cycle of birth, growth, decay, and renewal at the individual level finds its echo in the cosmic order, and it is believed that the divine power is incessantly destroying and creating the world by simultaneously dissolving and regenerating the universe.

Some noted individuals linked the 2012 phenomenon of 21 December 2012 with the concept of renewal and called 2012 doomsday a moment of potential transformative opportunity to transition from one world age to another and would mark the beginning of a new era that the date marked the start of a period during which Earth and its inhabitants would undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation; the idea of intellectual and spiritual evolution of individuals born during the period, and the possibility of leading the world into the New Age by example with higher level of consciousness.

The doomsday phenomenon that the Sun and Earth becoming aligned with the black hole in the galactic center allows some kind of massive gravitational pull on Earth leading to unprecedented solar storms , magnetic field reversals, or alleged Maya end-of-the-world predictions did not in any way caused interference. Unfortunately, the date passed with nothing realized and the event never really materialized as predicted. However, there is no precise definition of the Milky Way’s edges or the centre, and that the galactic equator is an entirely arbitrary drawn line, and the predictions of potential impacts of such an alignment are very vague and not fully explained as similar events of convergence of galactic equator with the center of the Sun already occurred in the past with no major events. But definitely, we can’t rule out the likelihood of such a supposed alignment of the sun with the Milky Way’s center, which may make our entire solar system — our sun with its family of planets, moon, asteroid and comets — to plummeting to the Milky Way’s center( black hole ) and dragging everything with it to the core before being recreated again and that will be altogether different world from the one exits today.

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Poondru Prithvinath Reddy

Computer Science, Robotics & Autonomous Systems. Founder of Unilinxs Technologies & Reddyware