Search found 2 matches

by Reshad
Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:37 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Tadpole galaxy
Replies: 9
Views: 2854

Collision

Cheers Bilderback, I do realise that gravity causes objects to be attracted, I had never thought that all these objects had been left to their own devices for such a long time in space that their motion had become completely dominated by gravity, hence the collisions. Hi Harry, you mentioned no bigb...
by Reshad
Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:32 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Tadpole galaxy
Replies: 9
Views: 2854

Coliding galaxies

Seeing the lovely Tadpole galaxy collision remanents, a question occured to me as to why galaxies collide if after the bigbang everything was flung perpendicularly from a single point at tremendous velocities. Furthermore, the visible universe is known to be continuously expanding and even accelerat...