Tag Archives: Galaxies; Astronomy; Astrophysics; Dark matter; Stars; Black holes; Exoplanets; Sun

Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way – ScienceDaily

[ad_1] 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 that the LMC crossed the Milky Way’s border about 700 million years ago – recent by cosmological standards …

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