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Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way – Science Daily
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight. The spiral-shaped…
The spiral-shaped disc of stars and planets is being pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence by the gravitational force of a smaller galaxy — the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).Scientists believe the LMC crossed the Milky Way’s boundary around 700 million years ago — recent by cosmological standards — and due to its large dark matter content it strongly upset our galaxy’s fabric and motion as it fell in.
The effects are still being witnessed today and should force a revision of how our…
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