My prediction is based on their newly weighted symmetrical model given at figure 2.
All previous extinction events are when the sun is in the galaxy arms, and we are currently entering one of them.
All previous extinction events are when the sun is in the galaxy arms, and we are currently entering one of them.
Yellow dot is where we are right now, as you can see we are entering one of the black lines.
6 blue dots represent the known mass extinctions, they all lie on black lines.
5 orange dots represent proposed new mass extinction events proposed in the paper.