A gigantic blob is slowly creeping towards New York City – and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.

Well, kind of. Researchers from the University of Southampton have discovered a mass of molten rock underneath the Eastern US.

The slime, known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, stretches 2249 miles wide and is oozing southwest at 12 miles per million years.

But don’t worry about being stuck behind it and being late to work – it sits 124 miles underground, according to the study in the journal Geology.

It’s considered a thermal anomaly because it’s far hotter than where it sits in the asthenosphere, a semi-molten layer of Earth.

Study lead and geoscientist Tom Gernon told Metro that the thermal lump has long puzzled scientists, as it doesn’t quite fit into our understanding of how c

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