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‘Coin flip’: 50-50 chance Milky Way will be destroyed in collision with Andromeda galaxy
The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations revealed Monday, giving our home galaxy a coin-flip chance of avoiding ...
Once inevitable collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies now seems less likely, astronomers say
A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...
The Milky Way was on a collision course with a neighboring galaxy. Not anymore
More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion ...
Is THIS how the world will end? Scientists reveal the startling odds that the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy - swallowing Earth in the process
Researchers from Durham University have calculated the odds of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy, swallowing ...
Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not collide after all
The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...
Study concludes feared Milky Way-Andromeda collision may never happen
A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a ...
Close encounters of the galactic kind: Simulations suggest Milky Way and Andromeda may not collide after all
Scientists from Helsinki, Durham and Toulouse universities used data from NASA's Hubble and the European Space Agency's Gaia ...
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Scientists uncover intermediate-mass black holes
New research offers compelling evidence for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), the "missing links" in black hole ...