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... OK, I'm feeling reeeeaaaally embarrassed right now.

OK, then what about a black hole absorbing a large mass, like the evil space rock? Would the emissions (if any) have any appreciable effect on the Earth?

Why can't it exist? HVC 127-41-330 is 20,000 ly across, but it consists 80% of dark matter and 20% of hydrogen. Is the evil space rock too massive, or what? At any rate, I'm actually looking more for answers on the classical physics (orbital dynamics, etc.) side of things. If we were to ignore...

Assume the following hypothetical situation: an enormous body, 20,000 ly in diameter (I recognise that 'asteroids' per se tend to be smaller), approaches the Milky Way, perpendicular to its equatorial plane, and headed straight for planet Earth, or at least on a trajectory where it will...