romanoitalia:fluxinguranus:procyonvulpecula:pagannerd:proxydialogue:anneretic:infinity-imagined:The
romanoitalia:fluxinguranus:procyonvulpecula:pagannerd:proxydialogue:anneretic:infinity-imagined:The collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.the grand showdownAndromeda is a bit bigger than us. So when that happens, Andromeda’s black hole is gonna consume our black hole in a vicious act of galactic canabalism. Which is an actual term used in astronomy apparently. “Galactic Cannabalism” sounds like an electro/death metal fusion band.Galactic cannibalism is one of my favourite astronomical terms, but it doesn’t beat the term used for the stretching out into a long thin tube that occurs when something falls into a black hole (spaghettification) or the term used for a rock thought to be a meteorite but which later turns out to be an ordinary terrestrial rock (meteowrong).fuck astronomy remains to be my favorite thingapparently we’ll survive this -- source link