The Milky Way Galaxy that our Solar System Orbits is a Supermassive Black Hole
The "core" pictured here is the "Black Hole"
Even though its not exactly "black" lol
Anyways, I made the wave movement a bit exaggerated in the drawing, but what people need to understand is this Solar System orbits the galaxy just like how our planets orbit the star (sun)... But in a galactic orbit, all the stars move together, and travel almost in a wavelike motion above and below the gravitational ecliptic plane of the Milky Way Galaxy.
When we go through the "Gravitational Plane" the influence will cause the sun to "burst" almost like a beacon when it suddenly lights up for a moment (the "moment" being a few days, perhaps even a week in order for the sun to fully pass through the influence of the flat "plane") This additional energy causes such a massive blow-off from the sun that it wipes out life.

I made the drawing like 5 years ago, I just threw it together to get the idea across, I'll do a better, more accurate one soon.
You MUST watch this video:
This post was edited by Torm1 on Jan 26 2011 10:39pm