2 Spiral Galaxies w/Supermassive Black Holes Collide

This visualization shows two spiral galaxies - each with supermassive black holes at their center - as they collide. In this simulation, the brightness represents gas density while the color indicates temperature in the gas distribution. The latest Chandra results suggest that such collisions may cause extreme black hole and galaxy growth in the early Universe, setting the stage for the birth of quasars. The time scale shown in the upper left of the simulation represents millions of years.
Simulation: Tiziana Di Matteo (MPE/CMU), Volker Springel (MPE) & Lars Hernquist (Harvard)

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[tongmaa]

"Gas" doesn't react this way on putative "impact", but spiraling Birkeland currents do when they energize surrounding plasma - which is the reality in space, and not "gas." It is becoming obvious to even most laymen that magnetic fields can't be seperated from the electrical current(s) which create them. All of these forms, in modeling, are more easily explained by electricity using Occam's razor. 21st Century cosmology will be a Plasma Universe and acknowledge charge seperation in space ...

[DeuteriumDrones]

Jeff Bezos for President! Vote Technocrat in 2012! Viva Blue Origin!

"Blue Origin is a privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement[1][2] under the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human spaceflight operations.[3][4]".

[fizXgirl314]

@kitesurf4life hey, maybe someone already answered this but it's because this is showing what happens to the gas when there's a collision. The gas is dense enough where they actually will hit each other. As far as stars are concerned, you won't get a shock wave because almost all the stars have enough space between them to actually pass by each other, but they do get strewn out into streams or "tails" in space... there are some simulations of what happens to stars in collisions out there also.

[fizXgirl314]

This simulation is made by Gadget (you can google it)... even though it looks like just pretty pictures, lots of physics went into it. This shows what happens to the gas in a galaxy after it gets heated by a black hole and blown out to larger radius.

[CR055H41RZ]

inception 0.o

[thebrokengnome]

wtf why do they become some kind of slinged dust string at the end?? I thought they had collided and rebuild their structure way back...this video need commenting

[pabletediaz]

FAIL