Our solar system has remained largely unchanged for billions of years and it’s likely to remain that way for a long time to come, but that hasn’t stopped astronomers from looking far into the future in an attempt to forecast some major changes happening to our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
A new research effort supports the idea that the Milky Way is headed for a massive collision and when that happens it could dramatically affect our solar system and perhaps even Earth itself. The good news is that humanity will probably be gone by then, one way or another.
The study, conducted by scientists with Durham University, focuses on the relationship between the Milky Way and a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC for short). The LMC is currently moving away from our galaxy at a high speed and at present, it’s around 63,000 light years away. However, that’s about to change and computer models suggest that the LMC will eventually collide with our galaxy in a chaotic, swirling mess that might even throw our solar system out into space.
In the paper, the researchers explain that an initial glancing blow between the two galaxies could fling our solar system out into space and potentially even affect the habitability of Earth itself. After the collision, the supermassive black hole thought to rest in the center of the Milky Way could grow up to ten times its current size.
But what does all this mean for humanity? Well, not much at the moment. The event isn’t expected to take place for another 2.5 billion years or so and if mankind hasn’t already turned Earth into an uninhabitable wasteland on its own, we’ll surely have had long enough to come up with an exit strategy if one is needed. Hopefully.
DEMONcrats need to quickly implement a Milky Way Tax !!!!!
(Which will be just as effective as a Carbon Tax.)
It’s all a lie . There is no Outer space . No moon landings . Everything to do with space is just another racket. We live on a fixed ,flat Earth that stationary sitting upon pillars with the sun ,moon and stars within the Firmament with God’s throne resting upon water. In other words God’s throne is right above your head , ….Stucky . So you better be a good Boy.
Best you get with da program
lil trucker boi.
Lord Odin no likey
you picking on Stucky..
Kind Regards,
RiNS
B.Sc, CET and LOS (Lord Odin’s Servant)
Bring it on!
alrighty then!
puttin’ in a call..
“There is no Outer space .” —— bb
There is in your MRI.
that unfortunately
is but a singularity
just a dark place
and not outer space
I thought it was turtles, all the way down.
Well nocte, it seems you haven’t got the memo..
We have entered the fifth dimension…all thanks to the great awakening of beebs. The penultimate Trucker/Physicist/Philosopher this age in the dawn of Aquarius…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ
To quote a more recent post…
Buwahahahahahahaha.
“computer models suggest that the LMC will eventually collide with our galaxy”
Are these the same computer models that can’t reliably predict the weather 4 days from now?
Do these scientist’s even know all of the factors that would need to be quantified and programmed into the CPU? Is the charge potential of the two objects a factor?
Garbage in….garbage out.
All I want to know is what the weather is gonna be like next Saturday. + or – 5 degree. Sheesh.
Ooooo, ya’ll be sooooo . . . “afeared”!
Sorry NY Post, the Universe ISNT billions of years old!!! It’s thousands not billions, all you have to do is watch the YouTube videos from Northwest Creation Network to find that out. NY Post : FAIL.
Well, so much for planning for retirement.
Ask them how long before the black hole at the center of the galaxy pulls us in. The news might not be all bad if we get out of town as long as the sun comes with.