Collisions between galaxies,
it is a fairly common phenomenon. Almost all of the galaxies involved in one or
More collisions during its existence. One example can provide as our Milky Way
galaxy, is sent to the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, at
about 50 kilometers per second to run into her in about a billion years.
A group of researchers
from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used the results of the
latest observations of 31 interacting galaxies located in fourteen systems to
carry out the first systematic analysis of the distribution of energy in the
interacting galaxies over a wide spectral range.
Astronomers studied
objects include all stages of the interaction of galaxies, starting from the
early stages, in which the interaction was just beginning, and until the final
states when the interaction effects are fully apparent.
The results
demonstrated that the collision of galaxies in the star formation rate
increases, but not as much as predictable. Scientists say that this may be due
to the lack of representativeness of the sample, due to the small number of
studied objects.
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