The Milky Way is again in the center of the world's attention after scientists made an incredible discovery about a new collision that is expected to take place between our galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. This collision was announced a long time ago by scientists, so we are not talking about something that has not come to our attention until now, but at this moment there is also a map that shows us how it would happen the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda.
The Milky Way shows in the map below the structures that would connect it to Andromeda, and that would help establish a clearer course of a future collision between the two galaxies. Scientists have been waiting for this collision to happen for some time, but we are talking about something that will affect the Milky Way many billions of years from now, so none of us, or the generations to come, will feel the effects of the violent impact between the galaxies.
The Milky Way: Incredible Discovery Looking at the New Collision
The Milky Way collided in the past with other galaxies that were near it, and that's how the galaxy we're part of was formed, increasing the number of stars and planets through these collisions. The future collision through which the Milky Way and Andromeda will pass would again increase the dimensions of our galaxy, but of course there will also be enough destruction due to the collisions between the stars and planets in the galaxies, not taking into account the black holes .
"Because dark matter dominates the dynamics of the universe, it practically determines our fate. We can ask a computer to evolve the map over billions of years to see what will happen in the local universe. And we can evolve the model back in time to understand the history of our cosmic neighborhood.”
The Milky Way has a number of connections with Andromeda at the moment, and scientists want to study them for humans who could live billions of years from now, regardless of what civilization might look like then. Of course, the analyzes are extremely difficult, especially since the dark matter is in the middle, and this cannot be clearly detected in the Milky Way, scientists can only estimate where exactly it would be, but nothing more.
The Milky Way will go through at least one collision in the not-too-distant future, but it is not excluded that throughout its existence there will be many more that will take place.
