Milky Way survived "frontal collision" with another galaxy | Express

This is written by Naked Science, reports dt.ua

According to these results, scientists generated data obtained by the Gaia telescope. a group of stars not moving like most stars in the galaxy. The stars of this group form an oblong region of the region. So scientists assume that the meeting of the Milky Way with Sassykoy Gaia was the only one of its kind. one of the most spectacular: its mass is more than 10 billion solar masses (about ten times lighter than the Milky Way), and there remained in our galaxy at least 8 stellar clusters

The computer simulations of the collision have showed that the "Sausage" stars were in orbit around the center of the Milky Way and were gradually absorbed by its disk.