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ostentragious t1_j1h8w30 wrote

My understanding is that it would be more like a gravitational interaction that would eventually lead to a merger. The problem being all kinds of enormous gravitational wells and interactions and any amount of angular momentum is going to make a head on collision very unlikely. But it makes me wonder if it's come up in any of the models or simulations of galaxy mergers? I wouldn't think it's completely impossible just unlikely.

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