You probably wouldn’t want society to know we were about to collide with a star-sized mass, visible or not.

> wouldn’t want society to know we were about to collide with a star-sized mass

I may be misunderstanding the distances involved but wouldn't such a collision take centuries if not thousands of years to play out? For the most part it would just look like we had 2 suns, one of which gets a few millimeters bigger (to the naked eye) every year.

Yes, and the weather would ruin us long before any exciting cosmological collision took place.

ah dammit I didn't think of that you're right it would be more of a disturbed orbit, weird ass days and nights but hey atleast there's a chance the scientists could have close up real life simulation of the three body problem