My point was based on words in the title “it risks...”
Couple of points on this is that an inanimate object doesn’t take risks. A risk involves the potential for loss and the decision to proceed.
Being that it is 8000 light years away, the possibility exists that the inanimate object elected to take the risk and may have already exploded we just don’t know it yet as the shock waves won’t get here for many thousands of years.
It’s just a pet peeve of mine that these stories assign risk-taking to objects and no forward thinking of what could have happened already. The proper framing of the story should have been in the may have, could have, and then present reasonable odds based suppositions in an If and only if, then, else format.
These so-called science writers treat us like retards and it is annoying.
It's in the same category of stupidity as assigning to hurricanes and tornadoes the ability to pick targets.
so-called science writers treat us like retards
Most of them are pretty damn dumb themselves ...