The Top Most Dangerous Astronomical Object in the Universe?

[Swat 3]

I'd say:
Supernovae
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Hyper-Active Blackholes
Super-Massive Blackholes
loving MAGNETARS BITCH
Pulsars

What do you think? My top one is really the Magnetars. If close enough, they can tear the mere atoms from your body, forget up the electrical nerve system in your body.
The magnetic power of the Megnetars is trillions more powerful than a CME. It is also releases gamma-ray bursts and x-rays. They are the size of Manhattan, and are way denser than the Sun.

Three for the price of one.

Of course none of these are close of us and can affect us unless a gamma-ray burst hits us and is still strong.

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[Ceist]

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[Pecon]

Anti-Matter.

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[Aware]

Blackhole, most definitely. (if they actually exist that is)

But by Gamma-Ray bursts, are you talking about the gamma-rays that shoot out in nuclear reactions?

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[dkamm65]

Gamma ray bursts, definitely. They're the most powerful releases of energy we know of, and some of the most luminous. They're so bright and powerful, we actually observed one that was 13.14 billion light years away.

Also, I think neutron stars beat magnetars in terms of holy-loving-stuff-ness. They're so dense, a spoonful of matter from a neutron star would weigh as much as Mount Everest.

Blackhole, most definitely. (if they actually exist that is)

Of course they exist.

But by Gamma-Ray bursts, are you talking about the gamma-rays that shoot out in nuclear reactions?

No, the gamma ray bursts produced by supernovas.

[Swat 3]

Blackhole, most definitely. (if they actually exist that is)

But by Gamma-Ray bursts, are you talking about the gamma-rays that shoot out in nuclear reactions?

Blackholes are puny.

They don't affect stuff that is light years away.
Gamma-Ray bursts and supernovae.

[SeventhSandwich]

I'd say a stockpile of nuclear weapons poses much more danger to human life than a gamma-ray burst. That's obviously not an astronomical object though, so it doesn't really belong on the list.

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my enourmous richard.
We all live inside it.

[Acerblock]

Actually, any atom of iron made in a supergiant (big star) would immediately make it explode in a supernova.

Be careful of your frying pans guise, hurrrr!

[dkamm65]

I'd say a stockpile of nuclear weapons poses much more danger to human life than a gamma-ray burst. That's obviously not an astronomical object though, so it doesn't really belong on the list.

If you're talking about likelihood, sure.

If the Earth was close enough to and in the path of a gamma ray burst, it could fatally irradiate most of the life on Earth, as well as strip off the ozone layer, leaving the rest of what's left alive to be killed of by the sun's radiation. It's a potentially planet sterilizing event.

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Gamma rays made The Hulk, one of the Earth's mightiest heroes.

Dangerous? Yeah, but it also saved the world numerous times.

[Katadeus]

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