25 Very Scary Facts About Space

‘A black hole we don’t know about could make its way through our galaxy and swallow the sun’
25 Very Scary Facts About Space

Think about anxiety over our insignificance by learning everything about space you can, our utter lack of knowledge is only going to make things worse. 

With that in mind, if you’re in a fragile mental state, I’m not sure I can fully recommend the following frightening facts about space sourced from an AskReddit thread seeking the same. If you’re feeling very self-assured, however, go right ahead. But if you end up in the fetal position trying to visualize the oxymoron of an infinite timeline, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

GrooveBat . 1y ago It never ends. Or maybe it does...and then what?
Criticallnspection22 1y ago No sound
Youpunyhumans 1y ago The Great Attractor, which lies about 147 million lightyears away, is a mysterious mass that is pulling on everything within about a 500 million lightyear distance. What it is, we dont know, but we do know its mass is around 10 quadrillion times more than our Sun. This is hundreds of thousands of times more than the largest ever discovered black hole, or even the most massive galaxy. It is also obscured by the Milky Way galaxy, lying directly in the path of the galactic core, and as such, we have no way to see it directly,
N/PLACE Macho_Pichou . 1y ago You can't burp in space so you fart a lot. This is not a joke.
Beginning_Court734 . 1y ago Better question would be what isn't terrifying about space.
Revolutionary-Cow179 . 1y ago As humans we have a concept of time. Things have a beginning and an end. With space | have the idea that it had always been there and always will be, but the more I think about the concept, the harder it is to understand that.
. 1y ago We're either alone or we're not. Which one is more terrifying?
squid516 1y ago Wanna know the reason we haven't been back to the moon in 50 years? First, there isn't much to do there and it's really expensive. But another reason is due to the solar flares in 1972. In 1972 between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions there was a massive solar flare that would have killed the crews if they were in space at the time. There isn't really anything you can do in space about the radiation and it's kinda hard to predict when it's going to happen, so you just kinda gotta hope for the
gimmeslack12 . 1y ago Less than 5% of the universe is matter.
_Tezzla_ 1y ago Until the twentieth century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one millionth of reality - R. Buckminster Fuller
Catleesi87 1y ago No matter how cool you think it is, no matter how much you want to go, no matter how long or how hard you train to be an astronaut, no matter how much being in space is your DREAM- you may still have a massive panic attack once you cross out of Earth's atmosphere and hate your time in orbit. Many astronauts experience an overwhelming sense of grief and dread upon looking at actual outer space from a shuttle window. This phenomenon actually ruined the trip to space for William Shatner, who wanted to go to space
pineapplesuit7 1y ago Edited 1y ago In a few billion years, if the expansion of the universe keeps on exceeding which is the current theory, any new civilization that are born then will think their galaxy is all they have because the universe will be expanding far beyond the speed of light so light from distant galaxies will never reach them. Today, we know of the billions of galaxies out there and we should feel privileged that the space we see today in the sky allows us some magnificent views. Future civilizations won't have that privilege, heck they won't even
Rjs617 . 1y ago I think it's scary how much random stuff is flying around in it at high speed. I get that space is huge, and so the probability of getting killed by a projectile is pretty small, but they put the James Webb telescope out there, and one of the mirrors is already unusable because it got hit by a meteorite.
ab845 a 1y ago So we are on this giant (from our perspective) ball of rock hurtling through space at high speed, around a very mediocre star. That rock has a thin film of water and all living things we know live either on that surface or in that film. Everything else in space is out there to kill us. We just got lucky so far to be able to discuss this. Even a little bit off, we would not exist.
1y ago I think the most terrifying fact about space is it's dimension of time. The well of time is so deep that it is almost Lovecraftian in its cosmic horror. Can you imagine a trillion trillion years?... Time so vast that is makes black holes decay like overripe fruit.
squid516 . 1y ago There's this thing called the Drake equation which is used to calculate the number of alien civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. The exact number is up for debate but pretty much every space expert agrees there is a really good change there are tons of aliens out there. This leads to the creation of the Fermi paradox which asks why we haven't been able to find aliens in space if there are so many mathematically calculated to be out there.
WanderingBat . 1y ago Gamma ray bursts are powerful enough to destroy planets.
. 1y ago That white holes MIGHT exist and instead of sucking stuff in like black holes they kinda throw stuff out
Lustnugget • . 1y ago A black hole we don't know about could make its way through our galaxy and swallow the sun
ion-Interesting . 1y ago Mars used to have a liveable atmosphere, but solar wind destroyed the magnetic field(billions of years ago that is).
. 1y ago If you shrink the sun down to a tennis ball and put it in the center of Trafalgar Square in London, England, Alpha Centauri would in Spain. That's how big space is.
no_plastic a 1y ago There are current 2915 human skulls in space right now
romacopia . 1y ago There might be giant rips in reality heading for us. False vacuum decay, the sudden collapse of the higgs field, may have already happened, as it would propagate at the speed of light and be undetectable. It could have happened more than once.
tahlyn . 1y ago The Dark Forest hypothesis as an answer to the Fermi Paradox
Lucycute7 . 1y ago The sheer distance between things. It's scary and somewhat depressing.

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