Wow, that's an incredible thought. So "ziiiiiiip" there goes the uberobject. 4 minutes later, all of the budgies on earth are knocked off their perches.
Would that uberobject heat up the earth as it passes? Not sure how that would work, but it seems like a good question 🤣
Thank you so much for this excellent write-up! And for providing interesting reading material, too.
It's amazing to me (an uneducated sub-layman) that things like dark matter and dark energy aren't well-understood, but we can nonetheless still do this kind of science and detect black holes colliding through ripples in spacetime 🤯 But then again, it's amazing to me that rivers never run out of water (joking... sort of...).
That LIGO sound clip is for sure going into the intro of a metal song.
That's amazing, thank you! A ghostly remnant of gravity still exerting 8-ish minutes of influence on earth (in the event of the sun's instantaneous disappearance) is something I never heard or thought about before, but it makes sense. It's hard to visualise it though. Like the earth is a marble circling a drain after plug has been pulled and the water is all but gone. Then the minute it is gone, the marble just keeps going in a straight line 👀
