When Cosmic Giants Meet Galactic Dwarfs
The research, published today, also found that when two galaxies of the same size collide, both galaxies produce stars at a much faster rate.
A short, one minute entertaining and engaging animation showing what happens when big galaxies meet little galaxies.
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An image using galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope to show what happens when galaxies of different sizes collide.
“But investigating such cosmic collisions lets us better understand how galaxies grow and evolve.”
Previously, astronomers thought that when two galaxies smash into each other their gas clouds—where stars are born—get churned up and seed the birth of new stars much faster than if they remained separate.
However Dr Davies’ research, using the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey observed using the Anglo-Australian Telescope in regional New South Wales, suggests this idea is too simplistic.
He says whether a galaxy forms stars more rapidly in a collision, or forms any new stars at all, depends on if it is the big guy or the little guy in this galactic car crash.
An image using galaxy images from the Hubble Space Telescope to show what happens when galaxies of different sizes collide.
“However when one galaxy significantly outweighs the other, we have found that star formation rates are affected for both, just in different ways.
“The more massive galaxy begins rapidly forming new stars, whereas the smaller galaxy suddenly struggles to make any at all.
“This might be because the bigger galaxy strips away its smaller companion’s gas, leaving it without star-forming fuel or because it stops the smaller galaxy obtaining the new gas required to form more stars.”
The study was released today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, published by Oxford University Press.
So what will happen in four billion years to the Milky Way and Andromeda?
Dr Davies says the pair are like “cosmic tanks”—both relatively large and with similar mass.
“As they get closer together they will begin to affect each other’s star formation, and will continue to do so until they eventually merge to become a new galaxy, which some call ‘Milkdromeda’,” he says.
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