アンドロメダ銀河の中心から外れた2つのリングの起源として,ほぼ正面衝突です

D L Block1, F Bournaud, F Combes

  • 1Anglo American Cosmic Dust Laboratory, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa. block@cam.wits.ac.za

Nature
|October 20, 2006
PubMed
まとめ

アンドロメダ銀河 (M31) には2つの塵の輪があり,これは,2億1000万年前の同伴銀河,おそらくM32との過去の正面衝突を示唆しています. この出来事は,私たちの最も近い渦巻きの隣人を形を変えました.

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