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The stars involved are sufficiently far apart that it is improbable that any of them will individually collide.
The result of the collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way will be a new, larger galaxy, but rather than being a spiral like its forebears, this new system ends up as a giant elliptical.
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Video credit: Youtube - SaltyMikan
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rockhydra
WHEEEE!!!
georgedragonslayer
Well, that's going to effect the trout population.
WynnCreek
Think we could hurry it up?
rossimus
Many stars will be flung out into deep interstellar space though, which will make any orbiting planets have dark starless nights forever
trippingthelightfantastic
Hashbrown123
quade
It's comin' right for us!
CardeasIV
"its inprobable the stars will hit one another..." but don tell me there wont be massive gravitation spikes around...or will they just merge
standingalone
GuacamoleMoleMolester
Oh Lawd!
cryborg
Thandruin
https://www.space.com/milky-way-3d-map-warped-shape.html how they figured out size&shape of the galaxy by measuring luminosity of cepheids
ThisUserNameReallySucks
I can’t wait.
MrSyth
So I've got this blue box... If you wanna go check it out
ThisUserNameReallySucks
Best offer I’ve had this century.
lurkerthatoccationallywantstocomment
? Black hole Sun, won't you come
ThrobbinHoodz
I can. I will.
tommiCookieHero
No one can
stoutde
I wonder how that's going to affect planetary orbits around the stars that don't collide.
vindik8or
It won't. You can essentially count entire star systems as just the star for this level of interaction.
HeadTurdL
Why does everything have to happen to me
AmandaCANZED
Great!!! Another thing to be anxious about.
PastryRaven
I heard the term they're using for the theoretical new galaxy is "Milkdromeda" and I think its stupid
MrKomisiripala
Oh no! The Economy!!!
MidasTheAlchemist
At least it won't be in a spiral anymore.
ElvenTroll1121
humans will be long extinct
HeroicSheperd
Kevin will still be around
SindarElla
Will someone please think about rich people's yacht money???
MrKomisiripala
The influencers! Oh, the tragedy…
DankestofKang
There goes the last Blockbuster!
Lashiel87
This is so stupid... I love it ❤️
iabductaliens11
Underrated comment
Twrecks123
The JObs report!
Pally01
The Yacht Money!
MrKomisiripala
Yes, we all know about Yacht Money. but what about Second Yacht Money?
ALLCAPSROCK
Great something else to dread irrationally...
Pyroboy85
ComoSeIguana
4.5 billion years?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
You won't always be
Afewflowers
Life has only existed on earth for 3.7 billion years.
ryanmikolash2718
First description of this future event I have seen that is accurate.
RetroHorse
This video is sped up a bit
DustInComp
Probably reversed too
AtmaDarkwolf
Only a bit. Be exciting when it happens though, watching stars zip past us :P
Popnitro
At least 9 times.
ShamelessSeamus
By my math: 1.3797e16:1
ShamelessSeamus
That's from video start, to collision at 8 seconds, assuming 3.5b years.
BlahBlahTurtle
Not to scale either.
Schadwen
Not even a banana...
ProfessorChaos
Just a bit. But who’s filming it is my question!?
willfulwizard
We’ve got a few years to get a camera into position. No problem at all!
Putrek
Probably Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman is obviously narrating.
vstubbs42
We need a different narrator, Freeman really bummed me out with that World Cup speech...
goflyblind
beardyfaceguy
What lens did they use?
Imalwaysready
Please. It's those smug bastards over in the Large Magellanic Cloud and you know it.
daementia
30 speed
Semphir
We are seeing it now, but it occurs in our future. Obviously it's the doctor...
OverMyDadBody
Sir David Attenborough, who else?
Myothercarisadelorean
cryborg
belongsinamuseum
Somewhere out there is a DeLorean, floating in the void.
MrBewn
Wheeeeeeeee!
OldManXan
not exactly. https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/
iwishihadchickens
TLDR: the model demonstrates we’re moving through space which is the intent. (it’s not a vortex, it looks like that because of the angle)
TomBobombBombadil
Fun fact, this is predicted to be the largest and most expensive beyblade battle in history
MyFavColorIsGlitter
Op! Let me scoot past ya.
KaJuN
We're going to need a shit ton of ranch dressing for two galaxies.
FabergeBurrito
Tell your folks I says hi
bullyboy1963
I'm gonna watch it from the restaurant at the end of the universe.
suiseiseki
The resultant galaxy is/will be called Milkdromeda. Which is a little lame if we're honest.
Matsuuu
Androway soubds cooler.
FabergeBurrito
Milkdromeda sounds like a Michelin star restaurant & Androway sounds like it's fast food counterpart started by their low budget brother.
Iaimtomisbehave
The merger has already begun! https://www.sciencenews.org/article/andromeda-reaches-out-touch-milky-way
Imalwaysready
Does this mean that the energy required to dial the eighth chevron will be reduced in future seasons as we get closer!?
iwishihadchickens
Fascinating! I read in another article that our furthest star is halfway to andromeda, and that a galaxy passed through us already.
WellThatsOriginal
Fortunately I saw this and reversed it. Whew! That was close
HapilyDamaged
OUR HERO!
Housemaster
AtsaMattaForMe
PineappleLoopsBroether
Someone supply this imgurian with some god damn upvotes!!
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FrogBotherer
It roughly coincides with the Sun ending its main sequence and growing into a red giant. So there likely won't be an Earth to worry about.
onecowboytoo
What if, hear me out now, we put a hyperdrive on the earth?
AtsaMattaForMe
Contundo
Even if it was happening right now it’s not very exiting. There is so much empty space so there not really very dangerous.
Imalwaysready
So we all die out right before the big show happens? Just make it through the previews and kaput? Well screw that!
HenryLongfellowIII
The way things are going we'll kill each other off entirely and re-evolve many times before that happens.
JustAnInternetPerson
I heard a podcast with Brian Cox recently and he said new calculations indicate that the earth will not be eaten. Still toasted though.
chiechien
Every new model seems to change the outcome slightly. "Oh wait if we just include this, Earth just moves to a higher orbit. Unless... Oh no"
Imalwaysready
They're just trying to make it sound less sexual so that it can still be taught in the Florida public education system.
KingOfTheImgurians
Can an astrophysicist answer a question, please? If everything in the universe is moving away from everything else, how can this happen?
FishDimension
Stuff is not actually moving through space away from everything else. It's the space in between that is expanding. Think of drawing a bunch
FishDimension
of dots on a balloon and blowing up the balloon. All of the dots will appear to move away from each other, and yet they all stay exactly
FishDimension
where you drew them on the surface. The balloon's surface is a 2D representation of what the universe is doing in 3D space.
FishDimension
Now I'm not actually a physicist so I may be wrong but as far as I know, exactly how this happens is not really that well understood.
FishDimension
Apparently, empty space has some sort of inherent energy that causes it to constantly create more of itself. This energy is what's usually
KingOfTheImgurians
Thank you! That helped me to understand it. You, sir/ma'am/sentient bowl of petunias are glorious.
FishDimension
You're very welcome!
Myrealnameisunusual
Also, our galaxy cluster (the local group) is bound together by gravity and will form the extent of our known universe many trillions of
Myrealnameisunusual
Years from now. Everything outside of the local group will red shift to nothingness. So any future civ will be unable to determine big bang.
KingOfTheImgurians
That's cool! I don't know much of this stuff, so learning something new is great. Thank you!
Myrealnameisunusual
My pleasure, liege.
Myrealnameisunusual
And hence will be unable to determine origin of the universe. To them the universe will be made up of the local group only. Nothing outside.
DavidBrooker
Fun fact: when the Andromeda and Milky Way collide and merge, odds are that not a single pair of stars will actually collide.
cryborg
However, passing stars could move planets around within our solar system.
Filanwizard
Space is big
DavidBrooker
(Meanwhile, the odds of the solar system being *ejected* from the galaxy are *not* negligible: 12-15%.)
onionninjas
that’s mildly discomforting
AbstractArtemis
99.99% chance that their orbits change, climayes become extreme and erratic, and all life is destroyed. I'm glad the dirt will be safe haha
Matsuuu
And isn't there also possibility of the big black holes in middle of galaxies starting to suck stars into them.
Hashbrown123
Imagine getting sucked off through a hole? Hell of a way to go.
AbstractArtemis
I think technically you fall into a big hole. You're not sucked
Hashbrown123
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSClDu98-c In the end they clearly talk about getting sucked off in a hole.
DavidBrooker
Interestingly, the merger of the two SMBHs at the centre of the two galaxies will *increase* orbital energies on average, pushing stars 1/2
DavidBrooker
further out on average. But of course, SMBHs ingest mass all the time, and some stars will likely be consumed. The reason we can 'see' 2/3
DavidBrooker
them at all is the mass falling into them, before they reach the actual horizon. 3/3