Galaxy HURTLING towards us which will awaken MONSTER BLACK HOLE and DESTROY EARTH

It will not be the LMC itself which will wreak havoc on Earth and our solar system, but the chain of events which will follow.

A gravitational push and shove will occur across the Milky Way, and the leaders of the study warn it could awaken a monster supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

Lead author Marius Cautun, a cosmologist at Durham University, said: “The destruction of the Large Magellanic Cloud, as it is devoured by the Milky Way, will wreak havoc with our galaxy, waking up the black hole that lives at its centre and turning our galaxy into an ‘active galactic nucleus’ or quasar.”

However, this is still along way off – but much sooner than expected.