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of new stars. In that case, they fall back into each other and eventually merge into one galaxy after many passes through each other. If one of the colliding galaxies is much larger than the other, it will remain largely intact after the merger. The larger galaxy will look much the same, while the
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slows the relative motion of galaxy pairs, which may possibly merge at some point, according to the initial relative energy of the orbits. A library of simulated galaxy collisions can be found at the Paris
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Galactic collisions are now frequently simulated on computers, which use realistic physics principles, including the simulation of gravitational forces, gas dissipation phenomena, star formation, and feedback.
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smaller galaxy will be stripped apart and become part of the larger galaxy. When galaxies pass through each other, unlike during mergers, they largely retain their material and shape after the pass.
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Evidence for the hypothesis had been claimed by studying early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo
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gravitational interactions with a companion, merges with that companion. The most common result of the gravitational merger between two or more galaxies is a larger
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located 700 million light-years away. Both galaxies are beginning to merge together, with a separation gap of only 130,000 light-years.
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transformed by the above-mentioned interactions. The existence of similar structures in isolated early-type dwarf galaxies, such as
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whose gravitational interactions will fling various celestial bodies outward, evicting them from the resulting elliptical galaxy.
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Galaxy harassment is a type of interaction between a low-luminosity galaxy and a brighter one that takes place within rich
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galaxy has merged with another galaxy leaving a fine mist, made of millions of stars, spewing from it in long trails.
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and heating of their gas. The result would be the conversion of (late type) low-luminosity spiral galaxies into
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if two galaxies collide and do not have enough momentum to continue traveling after the collision. As with other
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Junko Ueda; et al. (2014). "Cold molecular gas in merger remnants. I. Formation of molecular gas disks".
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is an impressive pair of interacting galaxies with a feather-like galaxy crossing a companion galaxy.
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NGC 4038 & NGC 4039 are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation
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2328:List of the most distant astronomical objects
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221:Animation of Galaxy Collision
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2502:Extragalactic astronomy
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1117:"A close galactic pair"
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2126:Low surface brightness
1877:Central massive object
1237:www.spacetelescope.org
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2434:Intergalactic travel
2384:Galactic orientation
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1662:Galactic cannibalism
1529:10.1093/mnras/stx634
780:NGC 2207 and IC 2163
765:SA(rs)bc / SA(rs)bc
616:computer simulations
554:Galactic cannibalism
538:Galactic cannibalism
451:Barred spiral galaxy
162:gravitational fields
148:Interacting galaxies
141:La Silla Observatory
58:"Interacting galaxy"
43:improve this article
2429:Intergalactic stars
2318:Large quasar groups
2313:Groups and clusters
2177:Groups and clusters
2036:Lyman-alpha emitter
1928:Interstellar medium
1625:2014ApJS..214....1U
1520:2017MNRAS.468.2850J
1461:2017ApJ...840...68G
1351:"Galaxy Harassment"
1213:on 24 November 2020
1153:on 31 December 2015
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303:Close encounter at
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2409:Gravitational lens
2364:Galactic astronomy
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1657:Galaxy Collisions
1355:supernova.lbl.gov
1092:"Close encounter"
981:ESO Press Release
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2119:Low activity
1953:Ultramassive
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2146:Blue Nugget
2136:Dark galaxy
2041:Lyman-break
1933:Protogalaxy
1899:Disc galaxy
1311:14 December
1157:28 December
922:disc galaxy
866:third phase
843:third phase
808:S0/SB(s)ab
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190:spiral arms
170:spiral arms
128:(left) and
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2141:Red nugget
2083:faint blue
1943:Spiral arm
1798:spheroidal
1788:elliptical
1771:Magellanic
1756:flocculent
1724:Lenticular
1711:Morphology
1568:2014-10-07
1511:1703.04975
1452:1705.03587
1336:2022-12-01
1291:2024-08-30
1286:HubbleSite
1267:2024-08-30
1262:HubbleSite
1031:2022-12-01
962:2017-05-24
940:References
624:starbursts
599:, such as
560:, through
186:satellites
69:newspapers
2231:Satellite
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2214:collision
2151:Dead disk
2068:Starburst
1983:Markarian
1855:Structure
1822:Irregular
1793:irregular
1616:1407.6873
1582:Astronomy
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1479:0004-637X
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1187:18 August
1076:10 August
1007:Space.com
986:26 August
906:Milky Way
784:SAc/SAbc
686:Magnitude
678:(million
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479:ESO 593-8
385:satellite
383:with its
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2463:Category
2352:See also
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1834:Peculiar
1776:unbarred
1734:unbarred
1703:Galaxies
1609:(1): 1.
1562:Archived
1242:20 March
1131:21 April
1051:27 March
1046:"GALMER"
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928:See also
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832:SAc/SBm
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676:Distance
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321:NGC 4302
285:UGC 2369
158:galaxies
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126:NGC 3169
99:May 2009
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1998:Radio
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1872:Bulge
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1637:S2CID
1611:arXiv
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458:dwarf
90:JSTOR
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