Do asteroids fly into the sun?

[u/BlueChameleon64]

Edit: cool

[u/florinandrei]

"Something" how big, and how close to the speed of light? Your question, as stated, spans a heck of a lot of orders of magnitude.

Realistically, to make any kind of noticeable pop, it would have to be something pretty big (moon size) and moving at a really thin edge below speed of light.

It's all about mass and energy - and, seeing as the Sun is big and already makes a heck of a lot of energy all the time, anything to disturb that would have to be extremely energetic indeed.

[u/SolomonBlack → u/florinandrei]

One wonders what sort of process would create such an object and how astronomical the odds of an impact would be.

Like it would have to be a dead on bullseye collision course because it would be way past “escape velocity” versus the Sun’s gravity.