will the mlkyway collide with other galaxy?

Answer 1

If It collides then the biggest galaxy's name will be given for the galaxy .

Answer 2

There are galactic collisions and they usually result in fantastic irregular shapes as both galaxies are stretched and pulled by each other. Google "galaxies colliding" to see the shapes.

Any galaxy is a candidate for this eventually, but if this is the Milky Way's fate it would be millions of years, or hundred of millions of years away.

Incidentally, when galaxies do collide the actual stars and planets RARELY collide as the distances between stars make this extremely unlikely. The ramifications of the collision usually only result in a new shape for both galaxies, and some stars trade their galaxy for the new one!

Answer 3

Yes, definitely. There is a good chance that our galaxy will collide and merge with Messier 31 (AKA Andromeda galaxy) in about 3 billion years. If not with that one, then with other ones of the local group or the the Virgo supercluster, as we all move towards the Great Attractor.
It is only a matter of (long) time...
And it has most likely happened in our galaxy past, as the Large and Small Magellanic clouds (dwarf galaxies that are satellites to our own) are most likely the result of collisions that occured in the past.

Answer 4

There are galactic collisions and they usually result in fantastic irregular shapes as both galaxies are stretched and pulled by each other. Google "galaxies colliding" to see the shapes.

Any galaxy is a candidate for this eventually, but if this is the Milky Way's fate it would be millions of years, or hundred of millions of years away.

Incidentally, when galaxies do collide the actual stars and planets RARELY collide as the distances between stars make this extremely unlikely. The ramifications of the collision usually only result in a new shape for both galaxies, and some stars trade their galaxy for the new one!

Answer 5

Good question!

Based on Doppler Shift studies, astronomers believe that our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy (our nearest large neighboring galaxy - 2 million light years away in our own "Local Group" of galaxies) may do just that!

However, it wont happen for a very very long time, and, when it does happen, the stars in both Andromeda and our own galaxy are so widely dispersed that they (our galaxies) should sail through each other like ghosts in the night. There probably won't be a "collision", just a merging. Afterwards, our two galaxies (both spiral galaxies) may transform into a large spheroid galaxy because of the gravitational disturbances.

Astronomers, in fact, have taken pictures of other galaxies in our universe doing this very same thing...

Answer 6

If you accept the postulate that the entire universe is in motion as a result of the "Big Bang" and the corollary that eventually, the expansion of the universe will reach its final size then begin to contract, eventually, yes, the Milky Way Galaxy will collide with another galaxy.......That is unless the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way doesn't "eat" it first!!!!!

Answer 7

the general sense, the absolute speed of any object through space is not a meaningful question according to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which declares that there is no "preferred" inertial frame of reference in space with which to compare the galaxy's motion. (Motion must always be specified with respect to another object.)

With this in mind, many astronomers believe the galaxy is moving through space at approximately 600km per second relative to the observed locations of other nearby galaxies. Most recent estimates range from 130 km/s to 1,000 km/s. If indeed the Milky Way is moving at 600 km per second, we are traveling 51.84 million km per day, or more than 18.9 billion km per year. For comparison, this would mean that each year, we are traveling about 4.5 times the distance that Pluto lies from the Earth (at its closest). The Milky Way is thought to be moving in the direction of the constellation Hydra, and may someday become a close-knit member of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Our galaxy may also collide with the Andromeda galaxy in roughly 4 billion years.

Another reference frame is provided by the CMB. The Milky Way is moving at around 552 km/s[23] with respect to the photons of the cosmic microwave background. This can be observed by satellites such as COBE and WMAP as a dipole contribution to the CMB, as photons in equilibrium at the CMB frame get blue-shifted in the direction of the motion and red-shifted in the opposite direction.

Current measurements suggest the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching us at 100 to 140 kilometers per second, and that the Milky Way might collide with it in several (3-4) billion years, depending on the importance of unknown lateral components to the galaxies' relative motion. If they do collide, it is thought that our sun and the other stars of the Milky Way will probably not collide with the stars of Andromeda, but that the two galaxies will merge to form a single elliptical galaxy over the course of about a billion years

Answer 8

Yes, eventually it will do this. However it won't be in our life time or that of our children or grand children. It will eventually happen in say, a billion years.

The Hubble telescope has given us some dramatic photos of other galaxies colliding, so there is no reason to expect our own galaxy will escape this fate.

Answer 9

Yes, it will....

I have seen in discovery channel that after billions of years, milky way will collide with the attacking Andromeda galaxy. This Andromeda galaxy is moving rapidly towards us... and it will surely colide one day.

Answer 10

yes. according to a educational magazine milky way will collide with Andromeda galaxy