From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 11:06:45 MDT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1975000/1975354.stm
Using the latest statistics and calculations, he argues that a supermassive
star collapsing at the end of its lifetime would form a black hole and send
out a beam of destructive radiation and particles that would sterilise any
planet in its path. The odds are that any planet in our galaxy would be
affected about once every one hundred million years. "It is a certainty; the
timescales are comparable to mass extinctions seen in Earth's geological
record," Dr Dar told BBC News Online.
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