Don't Sweat the Milky Way Andromeda Merger
On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 3:03:20 PM UTC-5, wrote:
It is only a merger, NOT a collision.
There will be essentially no actual star ( or anything else ) collisions.
This is due to the relatively miniscule size of stars compared to vast distances between them.
After a few billion years of gravitational interactions, things will have settled down to a single stable resulting galaxy.
See you were planning on living forever after all.
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