How is the Great Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that could extract the solar system from the Roman road

The Great Magellanic Cloud is one of eleven dwarf galaxies known to circle our Roman road. And according to a study published a few days ago by the Royal Astronomical Society of the United Kingdom, it will collide into our galaxy in two million years. Extremely long time compared to human life, but very short on a cosmic level.

It's the Great Magellanic Cloud the brightest satellite galaxy in the vicinity of the Roman road and into our surroundings, entered about 1,500 million years ago. It's about it 163,000 light-years away from the Roman road and has an extension of approximately 30,000 light-years.

It's mostly from Earth visible from the southern hemisphere. The Great Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy that contains millions of old and red stars and clouds of young stars. It is the famous Tarantula Nebula. The brightest supernovae of modern times, SN1987A, exploded in GNM.

According to the calculations of astrophysics at the University of Durham, United Kingdom, a large Magellanic cloud could affect the Roman road for 2 billion years.

The lead author of the study, Marius Cautun, postdoctoral at the Institute of Computer Cosmology at the University of Durham, said in a statement that "the destruction of the Great Magellanic Cloud, as it is destroyed by the Roman Road, it will destroy our galaxy, awakening the black hole that lives in its center and changing our galaxy into an "active galactic core" or a quasar. "It would start to burn the surrounding gas and increase its size up to ten times.

"This phenomenon will create strong jets of high energy radiation which originate from an outer black hole. Although this will not affect our solar system, there is a small chance that we can not escape unharmed due to a collision between two galaxies who could throw us out of the Roman road and against the intergalactic space, "he said.

The race between the Great Magellanic Cloud and the Roman Road can be spectacular, according to researchers.

"Unless disasters occur, as a major disturbance of the solar system, our descendants, if they exist, will face spectacular display of cosmic fireworks when a supermassive black hole, which has awakened in the middle of our galaxy, reacts with the exhausts of extremely light energy radiation, "said the co-author of the study, Professor Carlos Frenk.