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Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds – EurekAlert
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…
IMAGE: Magellanic clouds over Bromo Semeru Tengger National Park, Java, Indonesia
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Credit: Gilbert Vancell- gvancell.com
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…
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