Science News | Watch a computer simulation of galaxies colliding | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
A computer simulation shows how the Milky Way (left) and Andromeda (right) galaxies will brush past each other about 4 billion years from now before merging into a single galaxy roughly 6 billion years later. The numbers along the sides denote distance in kiloparsecs (1 kiloparsec equals 3,260 light-years).

Read more: sciencenews.org/article/andromeda-milky-way-galaxy-black-hole-collision-simulation

Video: R. Schiavi et al/Astronomy & Astrophysics 2020