A new study reveals what could await us from global events, as astronomers say there is a 50% chance of an accident… Andromeda Galaxyalso known as Messier 31, will destroy our Milky Way Galaxy within billions of years, engulfing Earth in the process.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, if the collision occurs, the planets and stars in the two galaxies will be thrown together, creating a large galaxy One of them is called Melchromeda, and there is a small chance that our sun will collide with another star.
The new study was carried out by an international group of astronomers, including Alice Dyson and Carlos S. Frink at Durham University, where scholars generally believe that… Our Milky Way Galaxy It is on a collision course with the nearby galaxy.
But there is no certainty that a collision will occur between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy, because the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away from us, and is the nearest large galaxy to our Milky Way Galaxy.
Astronomers have known for a long time that the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way attract each other due to gravitational forces.
They are expected to meet within 4.5 billion years to form a giant elliptical galaxy, in the form of an extended circle, according to NASA.
Also, using observations made by the Gaia and Hubble space telescopes, researchers estimated future conditions in the evolution of the galaxy cluster over the next ten billion years.
The researchers concluded that there is a “close to 50%” chance of a merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies within the next 10 billion years.
According to NASA, the sun and the planets that orbit it will survive the collision but will take new coordinates in the universe.
Eric Bell, a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan who was not involved in the new study, agreed that “it’s very likely that nothing would happen to us” if the two galaxies happened.
With the accident, it seems that the sun would be thrown into a new region of our galaxy, but the Earth and the rest of the solar system would not be in danger of being destroyed.
However, one possible danger of a galaxy merger is a collision between our star and another star, although there is a very small chance that this will happen and that the Earth will be swallowed by this event. .
