[Dead Corpse]

Think of it in terms of competing gravity wells. Instead of the negative potential in front of you “pushing” the objects space/time out of the way, you’d “skim” around the rim of the heavier masses space/time curve...

[Pontiac]

I guess I can understand skimming around an object depending on your trajectory being anything less than a bull’s eye.

But having a star or black hole directly in your path seems to be inescapable death to me at any speed.