Per History Station, our sun will cross the Galactic Equator in 2012. Will it encounter the Black Hole?

Question

Per History Station, our sun will cross the Galactic Equator in 2012. Will it encounter the Black Hole?

Answer 1

Scientists seem to think there is the possibility; this will also co-incide with Biblical prophecy, Mayan prophecy, and the I Ching. However, Scripture mentions about 6 months of evil reign before the true end, so perhaps mid-way through 2011 this will occur? If so, we know the end is arriving.

Just my insight :)

Answer 2

Additionally to the Black hole in the center of the galaxy always being around 30000 LY away from us, regardless of the year (the orbit of the sun is nearly circular):

Sun is slowly oscillating around the plane of the galactic disk - one oscillation takes around 42 million years. The last crossing was only 1.5 million years ago. So, all predictions which tell "sun is crossing the equatorial plane of the Galaxy" are plain wrong and not based on observations.

Currently, sun is 65 Light years above the galactic disk plane. The biggest distance, in the future, will be 250 LY, after that it will return back to the plane of the galactic disk, cross it, and swing to 250 LY on the opposite side.

So - no black hole in the neighborhood, no soon crossing of the equatorial plane of the galaxy (only of the reference plane of the galactic coordinate system, which uses a reference plane, which was defined 1958, in the closer future) - all mentioned is the statement is wrong.

Answer 3

No.

And if 'History Station' suggested any such silly thing,

they ought to be shot.

They probably didn't. - Listen better next time.

Answer 4

By crossing the galactic Equator, what they mean is that our solar system will go through the plane of the Galaxy, not through its center.  This precession through the Galactic plane takes 36 years.  We wil be 6 degrees off from alignment in 2012.  We won't be traveling to the center of the Galaxy or come anywhere near the Black Hole.

Answer 5

No, our Solar System is closer to the edge of the Galaxy. Not close enough to the centre to be worried about the black hole, and not close enough to the edge to be flung out into intergalactic space.

Answer 6

NO!!!

there is a massive black hole in the center of the Galaxy - but crossing the equator won;t bring us any close to it.

We will continue to orbit the center of the Galaxy.

Answer 7

accirding to the mayan calandar and the iching , 2012 that is when the world ends !