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... Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galacticcollisions around 5 billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University, who published their results in a new paper in the journal ...
... more often than encounters between two hefty galaxies. т??Having an accurate value for the merger rate is critical because galacticcollisions may be a key process that drives galaxy assembly, rapid star formation at early times, and the accretion of gas ...
... Even if spiral galaxies are dominant in the initial groups, the galacticcollisions eventually distort their spiral structure and strip off their gas and dust, quenching most star formation. ...
... This galaxy has a flat pancake shape, indicating that it hasn't yet come face to face with another galaxy, as such a galacticcollision would have disturbed the thin disk of stars, creating a small bulge in its center. ...
... Not coincidentally, 200 million years is the estimated age of the galacticcollision that created the tidal gas streamers, pulled between the galaxies like taffy. ...
... Most of the XRBs containing black holes in M51 are located close to regions where stars are forming, showing their connection to the oncoming galacticcollision. ...
... The best way to get such a stellar population is a galacticcollision, which appears to have occurred in the LMC-SMC system. т??By reconstructing the scene, we found that the LMC and SMC collided violently hundreds of millions of years ago. ...
... X-rays from Chandra show that the two "eye" galaxies and the smaller galaxies associated with them are slamming into one another in a giant galacticcollision. ...