All Stories. Bobby Womack, the legendary soul singer whose career spanned seven decades, died Friday at age 70. A representative for Womack's label XL Recordings confirmed the singer's death to Rolling Stone, but said the cause of death was currently unknown.
The Sun Will Destroy Earth Sooner Than You Might Think. Everything must end. There are plenty of ways Earth could go. It could smash into another planet, be swallowed by a black hole, or get pummelled to death by asteroids. Thereâs really no way to tell which doomsday scenario will be the cause of our planetâs demise. But one thing is for sure - even if Earth spends the rest of its eons escaping alien attacks, dodging space rocks, and avoiding a nuclear apocalypse, there will come a day when our own Sun will eventually destroy us.
Either Earth would career out of its orbit, spinning out of the solar system, or in the opposite direction, toward the sun, and we'd suffer a deadly warming. In either scenario, a black hole closing on Earth would cause our home planet to be literally ripped apart and swallowed whole. In a contest between a black hole and the Earth, Tyson says, Earth would lose.t would be a bad day for the solar system if we got visited by a black hole, says Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. In our vast galaxy there are billions upon billions of stars, each of which is at a different point in its life cycle.