by Amare Veritas on February 25th, 2007

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Do you think the milky way would survive a collision with another galaxy?

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by DavidHume on February 25th, 2007
Absolutely. Galaxies often collide. As they are mostly empty space, they pretty much pass through each other without any trouble.
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by slevin01 on February 25th, 2007
Depends what you mean by Survive. The galaxy would be transformed in terms of the number of stars and planet. Human race would not survive.
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- There is a theory that our solar system used to be a part of the galaxy Sagitarius, that became captured by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way, and is even now being acquired into the Milky Way. There is a web site that shows a video depiction of the marriage at http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html
  
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by Midnighttoker on February 25th, 2007
not as we know it now. it would partly depend on how much actually collided. we may even survive it.
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by KRH on March 14th, 2008
Most of the stars wouldnt even hit each other ,there so far apart.We are now already hitting a few small galaxys.
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by Firebrand on February 25th, 2007
Yes it would survive maybe in a different form. It would not be the first galaxy that has had a collision
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by creamywhip on March 19th, 2008
the sagitarius dwarf galaxy has been pulled apart by the milky way the gravity at the centre of the milky way is so powerful that a black hole is thought to be there its a theory that we got pulled into the orbit of the spiral arms of the milky way when this happened. this galaxy is home to us now because our galaxy was pulled apart the reminants of the dwarf galaxy have been seen by the hubble telescope nasas website is the best place for info the milky way is a powerful force.
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by duuhhh on March 13th, 2008
We will collide with Andromeda and nobody knows if we will survive.
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by Slipshod Wombat and Co. on March 19th, 2008
if it hit the arm where our solar sytem is, we'd be toast, but the Galaxy would survive.
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