The Top Most Dangerous Astronomical Object in the Universe?

[Cut Glass]

Alright, let's get this straight here.  If you look at the title, it says "most dangerous...".  This would imply that harm would come to us, thus making it dangerous.  A black hole on the other edge of the galaxy poses no threat to us, so it is completely NOT dangerous.

A few years ago, a very large and dangerous meteor was headed for an area near the earth, and there was some concern about that.  But out around Jupiter, the meteor fragmented and was sucked in by Jupiter due to its incredible gravity.  The earth is pretty well protected from astronomical anomalies due to its inner location. 

Because non-earth objects have a near impossible danger level, we turn to light-related anomalies.  Gamma ray bursts, though fatal to the earth and the most dangerous in caliber, are very rare, and even when they do happen, there is a very slim chance that any of it will hit the earth.  Therefore, it is not a contender for the title.

The sun, however, is essentially a nuclear power plant of gas resting 8 lightminutes from the earth.  It has a very strong magnetic field, but sometimes that field fluctuates.  This creates sun spots an mass ejections.  Given a big enough fluctuation in the Sun's gravity, it can create very large mass ejection, which has been perceived to ruin electronic systems.  Given a big enough mass ejection, you get total electronic wipeout.  Imagine a world with no electronics - no Internet, no traction control on cars, no telephones.  Us modern people, ever reliant on electricity, would ruin society.  The stocks would crash, governments would fall, medical practice couldn't issue electronic-reliant practices.  The world as we know it would shatter, all because of a big enough flux in the sun's gravity.

I put my bid on the sun.

Well put. And I couldn't stop reading Ejections as Erections for some reason.

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[Ceist]

i'd say the most dangerous astronomical object to humanity at the moment would be the asteroid belt inside our solar system

[Steemer]

    Black holes aren't that much more dangerous than the objects that they originally were. They don't have super strong gravity necessarily, rather their gravity is the same as whatever they were before. The reason they are more dangerous and can suck in time, is that they are compressed so much that their surface is below the distance where the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light (event horizon). The earth could be compressed so much to become a black hole, but it would be very small, and would probably decay very quickly.

The most dangerous thing would probably be other entities moving around, and radiation.

[Katadeus]

In all likelihood towels should have destroyed this universe very soon after their invention
The fact that they haven't baffles me

[Crispy_]

Blackholes are puny.

They don't affect stuff that is light years away.

Explain our galaxy.

[The Black Card]

towels

 

[ultimamax]

I didn't know humans were Astronomical.

Do they have a gravitational pull?
Are they dense?

u dum brah
yes to both of those

[danisaac5]

Blackholes are puny.

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

Ahem. *deep breath about to go all scientifical* At the center of our Galaxy there is a supermassive black hole. The gravitational pull of this black hole is enough to send our galaxy into a spiral formation, constantly being pulled in by the black hole. Not so puny now, eh?

[Doomonkey]

Alright, let's get this straight here.  If you look at the title, it says "most dangerous...".  This would imply that harm would come to us, thus making it dangerous.  A black hole on the other edge of the galaxy poses no threat to us, so it is completely NOT dangerous.

A few years ago, a very large and dangerous meteor was headed for an area near the earth, and there was some concern about that.  But out around Jupiter, the meteor fragmented and was sucked in by Jupiter due to its incredible gravity.  The earth is pretty well protected from astronomical anomalies due to its inner location. 

Because non-earth objects have a near impossible danger level, we turn to light-related anomalies.  Gamma ray bursts, though fatal to the earth and the most dangerous in caliber, are very rare, and even when they do happen, there is a very slim chance that any of it will hit the earth.  Therefore, it is not a contender for the title.

The sun, however, is essentially a nuclear power plant of gas resting 8 lightminutes from the earth.  It has a very strong magnetic field, but sometimes that field fluctuates.  This creates sun spots an mass ejections.  Given a big enough fluctuation in the Sun's gravity, it can create very large mass ejection, which has been perceived to ruin electronic systems.  Given a big enough mass ejection, you get total electronic wipeout.  Imagine a world with no electronics - no Internet, no traction control on cars, no telephones.  Us modern people, ever reliant on electricity, would ruin society.  The stocks would crash, governments would fall, medical practice couldn't issue electronic-reliant practices.  The world as we know it would shatter, all because of a big enough flux in the sun's gravity.

I put my bid on the sun.

The issue I have with this is that almost every single Sun event so far hasn't done much at all. The likelihood of an event to take out all electricity around the globe is very very small. Even if it were to happen, it isn't permanent in any way and can be restored pretty quickly.

EDIT: Also if anyone thinks that antimatter is dangerous, there is hardly any of it.

[Swat 3]

Yes, there is a huge collection of super-massive black holes, with a mass of stars, in the center of the galaxy.

That what makes it spin.

wait maybe i have no idea what I am talking about
yeah i have no idea

[Swat 3]

The issue I have with this is that almost every single Sun event so far hasn't done much at all. The likelihood of an event to take out all electricity around the globe is very very small. Even if it were to happen, it isn't permanent in any way and can be restored pretty quickly.

EDIT: Also if anyone thinks that antimatter is dangerous, there is hardly any of it.

I read that there is many loads of anti-matter, but we can't detect it.

[Doomonkey]

I read that there is many loads of anti-matter, but we can't detect it.

Not according to anything I have looked at.

[GhostStar]

wormholes

[Swat 3]

wormholes

No proof that they exist, really.

[GhostStar]

No proof that they exist, really.

they are still dangerous