The merging of Milky Way and Andromeda's supermassive black holes
The merging of Milky Way and Andromeda’s supermassive black holes Milkomeda is really happening -- #couplegoals. A recent study by Riccardo Schiavi, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Manuel Arca-Sedda, and Mario Spera shows how the galactic merger between Andromeda and the Milky Way could go down. Image credits: NASA. Our neighbor in the vastness of the universe, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), is a spiral galaxy and the biggest one in the Local Group — the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way. M31 is heavier than the Milky Way, in part due to the supermassive black hole keeping the galaxy gravit...
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