When you die it'll feel like 1 min 😭😂 Kinda good its 4 billion years from now wouldn't want to be here when it collides actually noone will unless we woke up and stop thinking bomfires like cavemen is the greatest source of energy in the world lmao lets get to the next step in civilization ... Way it's going well Just be dirt.....
@Nathan Dunne Possibly due to the millions of possible Solar systems colliding with ours, although we would all be dead by then if we dont have space travel
After watching this video, there are moments like this when I wish I was not an atheist. Wouldn't it be wonderful to exist forever; to learn the fate of not only Andromeda and the Milky Way, but of all existence. I can still remember my freshman astronomy professor telling our class (I'm paraphrasing): "Many claim astronomy is a sad science. The universe is so large, the distances so great; we will never understand the nature of it all. This class will be a detailed refutation of that claim." Although that professor is long since dead, I hope he would be pleased to know that, some 55 years later, his words were so astute and still fresh in my mind. Although I'm about as far from a scientist as it is possible to be, I am amazed at the mind-boggling discoveries I've witnessed over the decades. Shakespeare summed it up nicely: “To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” (Hamlet)
Everything is so big that is beneath human comprehension. Just thinking about the fact that someone in a relatively near planet in our galaxy has is own story, myths, maybe religion, his own scientific discoveries, their own understanding of life and space, their own names and definitions for it all, maybe discovered our planet and overlooked it, maybe they are trying to communicate with us because they are at same scientific level or they are way superior and we look as evolved as apes to them. Maybe we are superior and we'll never know. Multiplicate it for the billions of planets in the universe... Scary and fascinating. What fascinates me the most is the fact that being the chemical elements a finite numbers in a infinite universe is that somewhere out in space, there has to be "another us".
@@fabiofioretto9374Your a kindred spirit Fabio so big and so small is our universe. There's no center to an infinite universe. I wonder where on the spectrum of small to large do we belong? Oh well 6 billion years to the universe is just a stutter step. For the endgame you should read the short sci fi story "The Last Question" by Issac Asimov.
@@TheNeverposts Like astronomers, the scientists at the Centers for Disease Control have an understanding of medical science far beyond my own. My regard for the disciplines of all scientific effort is tied to the ethos of evidenced-based reasoning.
I hear you sir, I would never want to live forever but being able to pop in and check up on the Universe at any time I wished.... that would be just super
*i have seen andromeda so many times through my telescope, but still it is so breath-taking to think about the possibility of an alien looking at the milky way through his/her telescope at the same time as I have andromeda in my eye piece*
Alessandro Drudi same time meaning, literally the same time, or same time meaning 2.537 million years ago. (the distance to Andromeda is 2.537 million light years so it Andromeda looks as it did 2.537 million years ago)
Unfortunately because of this merger we're going to have to let a few stars go. (slingshots stars completely out of the galaxy) The lucky ones will simply be relocated.
First of all, PBS Space Time is not a "space" channel, but a physics one. Second, I never claimed it was the best, I said it was my favorite. Third, even if I had claimed it was the best, without an objective standard, "best" is a subjective evaluation and will naturally vary by person.
I just love this show. It feels totally different washing the dishes after you hear about the two galaxies merging. I mean, it changes everything, no? Love it!
@@zacharycoltrane3128 who knows, "our life" he means, is Earth's and humans, and maybe someday we'll finally solve global warming and live a few billion years
Just cancelled my gym membership due to the anticipated collision. No way I get good enough to outrun the 17km/s transverse velocity to dodge it. If, more likely, I didn't fall off the edge of the world.
EditioCastigata CALM DOWN WERE NOT GOING TO DIE FROM THE COLLISION IN 5 BILLION YEARS FROM NOW THE SUN WILL EXPAND AND BECOME A SUPER RED GIANT IT WILL SWALLOW MECURY VENUS AND EARTH BUT... IN 4 BILLION YEARS FROM NOW WHEN THE COLLISION STOPS THE GALAXIES WILL BE NICKNAMED MILKDROMEDA BUT ARE MILKY WAY AND THE ANDROMEDA WILL NO LONGER EXIST SO ARE SOLAR SYSTEM WILL SURVIVE THE SUN WILL SURVIVE MECURY VENUS AND EVERY STARS AND PLANETS WILL SURVIVE
Yes, a ska band! Get it? A SKA band! Sorry, I'm done, I'll go sit in time out and think about my infatuation with Real Big Fish, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
@@mwhitelaw8569 oh sweet summer child. I like you. But I grew up on Rancid, The Misfits, Suicidal Tendencies, The Pogues, Werewolf, and Sturcraft. Lately, I enjoy Rise Against. Any bands you could recommend? Sorry for my spelling, English is not my first language.
Just get a bunch of Space Gear and somehow land in a massive Space Shuttle and flee to another Galaxy, hoping to find a Habitable Planet similar to Earths
I like the name..it's sounds like smoothies or milkshakes if u build a space cafe or space resto! Name ur milkshake milkdromeda!! Mmmm I would like to try one if that exist!!
I have come from the future. The quasars mentioned have released massive flares that weren’t harmful, but the internet was disrupted for a few million years.
If we can't figure out how to get to Andromeda and take photos of the Milky Way prior to their collision, then I will be sorely disappointed in humanity.
I really love this show. You manage to make complicated physics easy to digest, and at the same time, you keep the integrity. Especially the last thing i tricky... Some are way to liberal and/or excited about new theories, while others are so afraid to be labeled as such, that they are TOO stringent on what can be talked about... You strike a great balance, and your interaction with the viewers are a great touch as well. Thank you for a great program, and please keep it up!
Yes, given the amount of time, we can organize starlifting for all the stars in both galaxies and coordinate a dance of stars into some fancy new method of orbits.
Knowing Isaac, he would probably be glad for all the extra matter. We don't even have to go there to harvest it, it's coming straight at us. Think of all the rotating habitats we could build with all that stuff.
A decade from now we notice the galaxy slowing. Not slowly either, several percent a year. Five years later its stars start to dim and go out, their mass hidden or converted somehow. This is of great interest to everyone and confirmation of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Then it starts happening in our own galaxy.
A possible future. Perhaps, across the massive void of space, a civilization ahead of our own is already planning. To convert the bulk of both galaxies into inert fuel so that they may live a billion billion billion years instead of dying when the stars go out naturally. Perhaps they see us as little more than bugs to be exterminated. Perhaps they wouldn't even notice our dying screams at all.
That's weird. I just thought about the Andromeda Galaxy yesterday and how far away it is, and calculated how much closer the galaxy actually is by taking into account the light-time delay. -Turns out the Galaxy is approx. 156,818 light-years closer to us, or 6% closer than the light we see today.- Pretty cool seeing a video about this the day after I thought about it :o
DyNamic I'm pretty sure your numbers are off. Closing the distance between Andromeda and Milky Way by 6% in just 2.5 million years would have Andromeda crashing into us in just under 42 million years. Andromeda is a little more than 2.5 million light-years away and moving toward us at 110 km/s. In 2.5 million years Andromeda will have moved 2,500,000 * (110/300,000) light-years or 916.66 light-years. I didn't factor in acceleration due to gravity so that might add a few more light-years but certainly less then 1,000 light-years.
Thanks for the reply. I did this calculation the other night and I completely forgot how I did it. Dammit. Anyway, I think you are right in correcting me. I was having one of those spontaneous brainstorm moments and was bound to mess up something in there.
Hey, just letting you know that there was a recent study done on the andromeda galaxy that revised the estimated amount of stars to around 800 billion and revised it's mass to roughly the same as the milky way galaxy.
Wouldn't that put it at twice the number of stars compared to the Milky Way? Implying that most of Andromeda's stars are lighter than the Milky Ways? Not sure how that'd work.
+Himanshu Goel Some astronomers have recently come to the conclusion that our galaxy is nearly the same size as Andromeda and perhaps even bigger than it.
Ah... Dark matter partially explained by massive Andromeda and Milky Way recalculation. I know Andromeda got much smaller, and M.W. got many more stars without changing in mass much, but the fact is that we had NO CLUE about the luminous and baryonic content of our own galaxy and nearest neighbor, and probably still don't. Antimatter was newly found right around Earth and also is hiding in protons. Glad that's over too. It's all just spin.
Size of Andromeda is still 2.2 times larger than Milky way. Also stars are 1 trillion. But Milky way has slightly more dark matter which means Andromeda which we thought three times massier than Milky way is now reduced to 1.76 times. Afterall Andromeda is still biggest of our local group. And who knows Andromeda's actual size. It may be even larger
I love imagining how the sky might look while this collision is occurring. Thanks for the artists' impressions :) If it were possible, I'd love to stick around long enough to actually witness it. It's going to be spectacular!
Oh heavens! Another merger - and the possibility of being transferred to another organisation without knowing our final entitlement :) Excellent video!
right lol Imagine if our universe is just a simulation done by someone in order to figure out their own universe XD we just a considens in the code, they properly testing for something completely unrelated to the milky way
+drdca Well it's a legit idea though. A very advanced race could be running a simulation to analyze who knows what problem, and we could just be an emergent phenomenon within it. Google "simulation hypothesis." I don't put much stock in it but plenty of people who are smarter than me think it's worth considering.
Since our nearest stellar neighbor is over 2 light years away, and takes 2.5 YEARS not millions of years, to reach us. I think you need to check that figure. It isn't surprising to find that people don't grasp the ENORMITY of the distances and sizes of things in the universe. Even the top physicists have anything close to a true grasp, but even for them, it's too much to FULLY encompass on a human scale. It's fascinating to realize that every molecule on earth, and even in our own bodies, was once part of a star that blew up millions of years ago. We are entirely made of "star-stuff." That's awesome.
Thank you for the video! I suggest you do one on “how lucky we are” to live in this time in the universe/this side of the galaxy/etc. and how much more challenging studying the universe might have been.
The dipole jets of a quasar blast perpendicular to the galactic plane. That galactic plane is where most star systems orbit so the answer is no. It would only grill the stars that lie outside of that plane such as those inhabiting the central bulge or satellite galaxies.
An intra-galactic quasar may be perpendicular to the galactic plane, but Andromeda isn't arriving horizontally, so there is a possibility that the jets from the inter-galactic quasar could sweep across the new Home-Galaxy, sterilising all multi-cellular life.
By 4 billion years humans will be a distant ancestor of the lifeforms that inhabit Earth and other planets we may have colonized. What species is expected to stagnate for 4 billion years? Also, we will probably have figured out how to extend our star's life span by harvesting materials from it well before 4 billion years.
Perhaps you underestimate how we are like an infestation. We spread to new areas and proliferate rapidly. We drain resources without considering consequences. If there is profit to be had in any endeavor we will exploit it mercilessly. It may take a while to figure out how to do it. Look on the bright side, we might wipe ourselves out before we can spread.
So, watching the two galactic centers (black holes) merge made me wonder: If both black holes were spinning in the same direction relative to each other (let's say clockwise), but the collision happened in a counterclockwise spin, would that change the spin of the black holes? Further, would that change the spin of the newly forming 'Milkdromeda' galaxy? If so, I feel like I need to start preparing for such a change... :)
Or one of the 2 blackholes would just flip. If you think about it, the rotation of the galaxy couldn't change, because at some point objects would need to reach a speed of 0 m/s relative to the core in order to change rotation side, making them fall in a straight line toward the center.
There's a pretty big mass difference between Sgr A* and Andromeda's SMB, 4 million solar masses vs over 100 million solar masses. If the collision were opposite Andromeda's SMB spin it would slow it down, perhaps tilt it somewhat but not enough to reverse it.
Dark_ Void and if you think about it, you’d probably looking at the collision from Europa, titan or mars because of the sun in the process of being a red giant. Edit: earth would be very hot by then
If you could sacrifice the rest of your current life, your lifestyle, the people you know and care about, etc, and in exchange become an otherworldly spectator to watch the events of the universe unfold, time-lapsing at whatever speed you desire, would you? The reference is Kokkoku, btw.
Knowing both how big the Andromeda galaxy really is and yet how small it looks in the sky truly makes me realize just how unimaginatively far away it must be! So anyone besides me that knows what I'm talkin about can comprehend that it just boggles the mind.!!
I am crying of how beutiful space is... I LOVE IT! I just want to get to go there and somehow live long to see all of that... it would be amazing...maybe we could upload our brains on computers so we can see amazing space stuff in the future?
Funny to think that getting slingshotted into inter-galactic space might not actually affect us that much, assuming we never successfully become inter-stellar. (And without faster than light travel we probably never will.) We'll have a great view of the merged galaxy though.
8:36 -- I hate living in "the time before our collision with Andromeda." I wanna live in the time CLOSER to the collision of Andromeda... or maybe just AFTER the collision with Andromeda. Just think: there was no one or nothing to see the eventuality of different clumps of stars colliding with other groupings of stars to accrete the Milky Way....
Jon Dunmore well by that time earth will be a planet like Venus hot and not habitable. That is if the sun yet has not cooked. The sun will evolve to red giant and consume all the planets up to mars and maybe earth at that time.
If we move to a new solar system or figure out how to make stars, we'll likely still be here in this same galaxy if still alive in some form, lol. So yea, beings could still be around to be affected at that point potentially, you just have to hope humanity somehow makes it out of this solar system alive and with the capability for sustained life elsewhere ;)
So... by observation, the collision will be in 4.5 billion years. That means we will have information about it in 4.5 billion years ou it will happen in 4.5 billion years and we will have info much later than that? Considering the size of the milky way, the first option means it has already collided.
It's crazy because in Andromeda, they may be talking about crashing into us. That's insane to think about
I bet they gave our galaxy some scientific nerd name... meanwhile they named their own galaxy something that sounds delicious like we did.
from their perspective it's like milky way is coming towards them
@@DicoTheRedstoner Mind blown.
@@VTown1989 Like Cotton candy way
it's perfectly sane
me: *mentally preparing for something that is due in 4 billion years*
my english essay: *due in 4 hours*
Immortality would definitely have a downside.
< ( _ + * = _ * + ) >
When you die it'll feel like 1 min 😭😂 Kinda good its 4 billion years from now wouldn't want to be here when it collides actually noone will unless we woke up and stop thinking bomfires like cavemen is the greatest source of energy in the world lmao lets get to the next step in civilization ... Way it's going well Just be dirt.....
Fun theory: The black hole centers of Andromeda and the Milky Way could be connected by a wormhole!!
@Nathan Dunne Possibly due to the millions of possible Solar systems colliding with ours, although we would all be dead by then if we dont have space travel
Kids in 4 Billion Years:
wHoS HeRe aFteR thE COllisIOn?!
Underated😂😂
Lmao
LMAOOO
No cap
They really will be like that 😭
After watching this video, there are moments like this when I wish I was not an atheist. Wouldn't it be wonderful to exist forever; to learn the fate of not only Andromeda and the Milky Way, but of all existence. I can still remember my freshman astronomy professor telling our class (I'm paraphrasing): "Many claim astronomy is a sad science. The universe is so large, the distances so great; we will never understand the nature of it all. This class will be a detailed refutation of that claim." Although that professor is long since dead, I hope he would be pleased to know that, some 55 years later, his words were so astute and still fresh in my mind. Although I'm about as far from a scientist as it is possible to be, I am amazed at the mind-boggling discoveries I've witnessed over the decades. Shakespeare summed it up nicely: “To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” (Hamlet)
Everything is so big that is beneath human comprehension. Just thinking about the fact that someone in a relatively near planet in our galaxy has is own story, myths, maybe religion, his own scientific discoveries, their own understanding of life and space, their own names and definitions for it all, maybe discovered our planet and overlooked it, maybe they are trying to communicate with us because they are at same scientific level or they are way superior and we look as evolved as apes to them. Maybe we are superior and we'll never know. Multiplicate it for the billions of planets in the universe... Scary and fascinating.
What fascinates me the most is the fact that being the chemical elements a finite numbers in a infinite universe is that somewhere out in space, there has to be "another us".
@@fabiofioretto9374Your a kindred spirit Fabio so big and so small is our universe. There's no center to an infinite universe. I wonder where on the spectrum of small to large do we belong? Oh well 6 billion years to the universe is just a stutter step. For the endgame you should read the short sci fi story "The Last Question" by Issac Asimov.
what if, as an atheist, you put some elbow grease into the science of medicine instead?
@@TheNeverposts Like astronomers, the scientists at the Centers for Disease Control have an understanding of medical science far beyond my own. My regard for the disciplines of all scientific effort is tied to the ethos of evidenced-based reasoning.
I hear you sir, I would never want to live forever but being able to pop in and check up on the Universe at any time I wished.... that would be just super
Dammit, this really puts a damper on my plans 6 billion years from now
ok cool
lmaoo
Yes I had dinner reservations 😭
@@billybobbinzzz5667 there’s always take out
*i have seen andromeda so many times through my telescope, but still it is so breath-taking to think about the possibility of an alien looking at the milky way through his/her telescope at the same time as I have andromeda in my eye piece*
What do you mean by "at the same time"? :)
"his/her".....wow. did you really just assume that aliens are binary gendered? in 2018? omg
NO NEED TO SHOUT
The Exoplanets Channel That's surreal man
Alessandro Drudi
same time meaning, literally the same time, or same time meaning 2.537 million years ago. (the distance to Andromeda is 2.537 million light years so it Andromeda looks as it did 2.537 million years ago)
Freaking mergers. Who signed off on this? Aren't these regulated?
Unfortunately because of this merger we're going to have to let a few stars go.
(slingshots stars completely out of the galaxy)
The lucky ones will simply be relocated.
@@VTown1989 wait so I'm gonna lose my job NOOO
Freak Zilla f for the stars
Mark Zuckerberg is responsible
Your joke should get way more likes.
Channels come, channels go, and PBS Space Time is still my favorite on all youtube.
Lucas Balaminut I agree, PBS Space Time is the only channel I have never unsubscribed to.
It's not even the best space channel on youtube (Vintage Space)
First of all, PBS Space Time is not a "space" channel, but a physics one. Second, I never claimed it was the best, I said it was my favorite. Third, even if I had claimed it was the best, without an objective standard, "best" is a subjective evaluation and will naturally vary by person.
I was gonna like you comment, but it has 69, so I'm not gonna disrupt that. Heh...heh
drangus how funny you are
I just love this show. It feels totally different washing the dishes after you hear about the two galaxies merging. I mean, it changes everything, no? Love it!
Yea and a lot more stars and planets
Andromeda: come over my parents aren't home
Milky way:
@Jack Daniel-Keane more like "I'm coming over whether you want me to or not" lol.
Im on my way, it'll be 4 billion years, c u soon ;)
Don't mess around like that what if in 4 billion years our life ends because Milky Way hits andromeda
@@Scp-cm9st Are you a troll? We...will...not...be...here...when...that...happens. You really think a joke will affect that?
@@zacharycoltrane3128 who knows, "our life" he means, is Earth's and humans, and maybe someday we'll finally solve global warming and live a few billion years
Andromeda-Milky Way collision: ± 4.000.000.000 years
Human average life expectancy : 71 years
Time left to sleep:
it wonty be 71 years maybe 80-100 years
@@sylvaindurandFr 80 years is the normal life span I think
@@zyon8112 global average is 72.6
See you in 60
@@tjs200 global average for this generation is about 23
Just cancelled my gym membership due to the anticipated collision. No way I get good enough to outrun the 17km/s transverse velocity to dodge it. If, more likely, I didn't fall off the edge of the world.
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EditioCastigata CALM DOWN WERE NOT GOING TO DIE FROM THE COLLISION IN 5 BILLION YEARS FROM NOW THE SUN WILL EXPAND AND BECOME A SUPER RED GIANT IT WILL SWALLOW MECURY VENUS AND EARTH BUT... IN 4 BILLION YEARS FROM NOW WHEN THE COLLISION STOPS THE GALAXIES WILL BE NICKNAMED MILKDROMEDA BUT ARE MILKY WAY AND THE ANDROMEDA WILL NO LONGER EXIST SO ARE SOLAR SYSTEM WILL SURVIVE THE SUN WILL SURVIVE MECURY VENUS AND EVERY STARS AND PLANETS WILL SURVIVE
Another flat earth joke lol
Another globe earth joke lol I ment . Globe flat hollow really a flat earth joke u must be bored lol
Globe earthers are always knocking flat earthers . Lol . Earth is what earth is .
Milkdromeda would be a great name for a garage band
Yes, a ska band! Get it? A SKA band! Sorry, I'm done, I'll go sit in time out and think about my infatuation with Real Big Fish, and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
Using
@@theformertexan1642
There's always redemption in punk
Or you could listen to fishbone
@@mwhitelaw8569 oh sweet summer child. I like you. But I grew up on Rancid, The Misfits, Suicidal Tendencies, The Pogues, Werewolf, and Sturcraft. Lately, I enjoy Rise Against. Any bands you could recommend? Sorry for my spelling, English is not my first language.
sounds more like a crazy scientists wet dream of creating a desert dwelling camel/milkcow hybrid!
I just hope they will stream live either on Twitch or YouNow.
Cool to know that the remaining atoms of my bones in the sun will experience this.
*plasma ...if not disintegrated to particles by a black hole by that time already
Such a great video to feature one of my t-shirts! It's also nice to see some crazies in the comments 🤪
You're going mainstream!
Well sure we crazies are here... aren’t we everywhere?
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL.😀😀😀😀😁😁😁👍👍👍👍
TH-cam actually recommended your channel to me when I was binge watching Space Time a few months ago =3
Remember, it's okay to be a little crazy 😜
When the Andromeda galaxy hits us, we'll be okay if we all jump right as it hits us...
lmao 🤣🤣🤣
Just get a bunch of Space Gear and somehow land in a massive Space Shuttle and flee to another Galaxy, hoping to find a Habitable Planet similar to Earths
😂
Matt's work on this show has resurrected my love for physics and learning in general. He's an absolute hero!
Milky Way gets plowed by Andromeda (NSFW)
Dank_Smirk
And liberals blame conservatives.
Andromeda gets plowed by Milky Way.
Dank_Smirk Plasma gets everywhere. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*pornhub theme plays in*
Kinky
scientists: "we call it Milkdromeda!"
me: "is this some kind of joke???"
i hate that name sooo much!
It's the way of the Androme or no way at all
@2300 Slatt shake hands man. I thought I'm the only one who thinks opposite of what the whole world thinks
I like the name..it's sounds like smoothies or milkshakes if u build a space cafe or space resto!
Name ur milkshake milkdromeda!! Mmmm I would like to try one if that exist!!
Milkomida not Milkdromeda
Yea ok, but will it disrupt my wifi?
Yes it will, terribly!
Not the impact, but the 4 billion years and the sun eating the planet. ^^
This guy.. Asking the real questions.
I have come from the future. The quasars mentioned have released massive flares that weren’t harmful, but the internet was disrupted for a few million years.
Only those people that didn't upgrade to the photon switches.
I hope in 4 billion years we will develop a better wireless technology, as well as routers that don't suddenly lose signal or just hang.
The universe is so freaking cool
Too bad most people prefer superstitious fiction
GDI To each their own, we can all enjoy life in our own way 👍
Oh, I was assuming reality was the preferred way
GDI it's not that serious, mate.
GDI
the universe is cool, but the time frames are ridiculous
"born to late to explore earth, to early to explore space"
yeah the curse of our time, but hey, we got to see the mobile zombies!
Never 'too' late to learn how to spell better :)
@@tavusion lollllllll
T.A.V as much as Grammar nazis annoy me, I had trouble reading this guy’s comment because of his spelling
@Incredible Gamer OK BOOMER
1:24 The Earth is so special, we're calling it The The Earth
The extremely definite article.
We called our planet dirt
@@rat-dog7357 we called it tree
I'm future jealous, I would love to see the beautiful horror of this event. Where is the doctor!?
I need to warn my 10^(8) grandchildren of their upcomimg doom!!!
Phil 😭
Me too
I'd give anything to see this
Why waste time thinking about going to another galaxy when one is coming to us anyway?
Exactly. Like why should we look for shooting stars when we can just shoot ours??? Omfg I always be wonderin dis boo boo
Modern problem require modern solution
We are wasting time watching TH-cam for this time and we have to wait 4.3 billion years later and still watching TH-cam
SnowyFoxlinn it's interesting tho
It won’t matter becuese in 4 billion years is be six feet under the ground
I don’t think Bruce Willis and crew are going to get us out of this one ...
I'll give this video a like just due to the "Science Asylum" T-shirt alone.
Thanks be, to this gentleman and the others involved in producing these videos. Love it.
Love the feed back. Be Well... All of You ! !
I've installed seatbelts on our couch, so we're ready for the collision.
I love the Science Asylum t-shirt 👌
Rodoks42 One of the best channels 👍
All us Crazies agree! 😲 Woop,Woop.....
Ayy I found my peeps.
Me too!! The presenter has super cool Tees
Yeah! Let's make fun of mentally ill people!
If we can't figure out how to get to Andromeda and take photos of the Milky Way prior to their collision, then I will be sorely disappointed in humanity.
Well... i mean the longer we wait, the closer it gets, so no rush i guess
We don't need to go to Andromeda, it's coming to us
I really love this show.
You manage to make complicated physics easy to digest, and at the same time, you keep the integrity.
Especially the last thing i tricky... Some are way to liberal and/or excited about new theories, while others are so afraid to be labeled as such, that they are TOO stringent on what can be talked about...
You strike a great balance, and your interaction with the viewers are a great touch as well.
Thank you for a great program, and please keep it up!
Me: The Milky Way is going to die?
The Universe: Dude it's like 5 billion years from now
Me: Bbbbb...bbbbb...bbbut
It will be the single most amazing sight ever, and the scariest, idk whether to be happy about not seeing it or sad
"The two galaxies will inevitably collide" Challenge accepted
- Isaac Arthur :P
Yes, given the amount of time, we can organize starlifting for all the stars in both galaxies and coordinate a dance of stars into some fancy new method of orbits.
Knowing Isaac, he would probably be glad for all the extra matter. We don't even have to go there to harvest it, it's coming straight at us. Think of all the rotating habitats we could build with all that stuff.
A decade from now we notice the galaxy slowing. Not slowly either, several percent a year. Five years later its stars start to dim and go out, their mass hidden or converted somehow. This is of great interest to everyone and confirmation of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
Then it starts happening in our own galaxy.
+Gareth Dean Lmao what was that about, mate?
A possible future. Perhaps, across the massive void of space, a civilization ahead of our own is already planning. To convert the bulk of both galaxies into inert fuel so that they may live a billion billion billion years instead of dying when the stars go out naturally. Perhaps they see us as little more than bugs to be exterminated. Perhaps they wouldn't even notice our dying screams at all.
1:02 - 1:09
Helmsman: "Collision course, sir!!"
Captain: "SHIELDS! SHIELDS! Fire photon torpedoes, full spread!!"
That's weird. I just thought about the Andromeda Galaxy yesterday and how far away it is, and calculated how much closer the galaxy actually is by taking into account the light-time delay. -Turns out the Galaxy is approx. 156,818 light-years closer to us, or 6% closer than the light we see today.- Pretty cool seeing a video about this the day after I thought about it :o
DyNamic I'm pretty sure your numbers are off. Closing the distance between Andromeda and Milky Way by 6% in just 2.5 million years would have Andromeda crashing into us in just under 42 million years.
Andromeda is a little more than 2.5 million light-years away and moving toward us at 110 km/s. In 2.5 million years Andromeda will have moved 2,500,000 * (110/300,000) light-years or 916.66 light-years. I didn't factor in acceleration due to gravity so that might add a few more light-years but certainly less then 1,000 light-years.
Thanks for the reply. I did this calculation the other night and I completely forgot how I did it. Dammit. Anyway, I think you are right in correcting me. I was having one of those spontaneous brainstorm moments and was bound to mess up something in there.
Lol at least you’re using your brain to problem solve and think abstractly unlike most other people on the internet
110 km/s x 2.5e6 yr x 3.17e7 s/yr = 8.7e15 km
8.7e15 km x 1.1e-13 ly/km = 960 ly
960 ly / 2.5e6 ly = 3.8e-4 = 3.8e-2 %
so .038% closer than it appears?
We gotta get out of this place!
If it’s the last thing we ever do?
Why?
We'd better contact our insurance adjuster now.
This is an unavoidable incident
good that we know this in advance and can make preparations by then , we hope
Hey, just letting you know that there was a recent study done on the andromeda galaxy that revised the estimated amount of stars to around 800 billion and revised it's mass to roughly the same as the milky way galaxy.
John Kicklighter yes , i had read .
Wouldn't that put it at twice the number of stars compared to the Milky Way? Implying that most of Andromeda's stars are lighter than the Milky Ways? Not sure how that'd work.
+Himanshu Goel
Some astronomers have recently come to the conclusion that our galaxy is nearly the same size as Andromeda and perhaps even bigger than it.
Ah... Dark matter partially explained by massive Andromeda and Milky Way recalculation. I know Andromeda got much smaller, and M.W. got many more stars without changing in mass much, but the fact is that we had NO CLUE about the luminous and baryonic content of our own galaxy and nearest neighbor, and probably still don't. Antimatter was newly found right around Earth and also is hiding in protons. Glad that's over too. It's all just spin.
Size of Andromeda is still 2.2 times larger than Milky way. Also stars are 1 trillion. But Milky way has slightly more dark matter which means Andromeda which we thought three times massier than Milky way is now reduced to 1.76 times. Afterall Andromeda is still biggest of our local group. And who knows Andromeda's actual size. It may be even larger
Milk-Dromada might bring us new neighbors. Always exiting to see who moves in on the empty lot next you ours.
hope they bring someone with a better name for the after collision galaxy
Unless they're blacks.
ChocolateKuruma If their Star was red-light or UV light-centric, then they would likely not know what color we think their skin is.
@@ChocolateKuruma
lmao
@@ChocolateKuruma lol
I love imagining how the sky might look while this collision is occurring. Thanks for the artists' impressions :) If it were possible, I'd love to stick around long enough to actually witness it. It's going to be spectacular!
Same. The artist renditions were great. That's what I came here for.
Oh heavens! Another merger - and the possibility of being transferred to another organisation without knowing our final entitlement :) Excellent video!
So many souls died in this computer simulation collision all in the name of science. #stopsimulatedlifemassacre
right lol
Imagine if our universe is just a simulation done by someone in order to figure out their own universe XD
we just a considens in the code, they properly testing for something completely unrelated to the milky way
They, uh, don't simulate that level of detail, but you knew that, and it was a joke, and I probably should just delete this comment
+drdca Well it's a legit idea though. A very advanced race could be running a simulation to analyze who knows what problem, and we could just be an emergent phenomenon within it. Google "simulation hypothesis." I don't put much stock in it but plenty of people who are smarter than me think it's worth considering.
Eric J Oh, sure, but that didn't happen with the simulation mentioned in the video
Tiberiu Nicolae OMG! Hahaha😁😁
Milkdromeda!
Luka2810 I would prefer milkyma
Another Fraser Cain viewer!
Andromy Way!
Andromilk is a clear winner in my heart
Androgalax, Galactomeda
I was hoping for a cereal- milk demonstration.
I guess I should have eaten before jumping on YT.
"I see the sea and wonder
If on some distant shore
Someone is standing, staring
Not knowing I am here"
Andromeda is pulling us toward it. It has a lot more mass and it's garvity is tugging at us. So it's not racing towards us. We are going towards it.
You know you've made it when Matt uses your shirt :p If you're reading this,love your vids Nick!(The science asylum)
That Shirt! Havent even watched the episode yet, jsut saw the shirt and I'm excited...I love Science Asylum!
Props to the Science Asylum shirt, you should have him on a guest and be a guest over there
The M-31 is 2.5 light years away. So whatever was observed by the Hubble telescope was released 2.5 M years back by the M-31.
Since our nearest stellar neighbor is over 2 light years away, and takes 2.5 YEARS not millions of years, to reach us. I think you need to check that figure. It isn't surprising to find that people don't grasp the ENORMITY of the distances and sizes of things in the universe. Even the top physicists have anything close to a true grasp, but even for them, it's too much to FULLY encompass on a human scale. It's fascinating to realize that every molecule on earth, and even in our own bodies, was once part of a star that blew up millions of years ago. We are entirely made of "star-stuff." That's awesome.
This is not easy to do in one seamless take. You did a good job.
A parallax measurement of range would be more convincing. Let's work on that. Then trajectory could follow.
Galaxies don't go away from each other, the space between us is becoming bigger
now there's a badass name! Vesto Slipher
This is love of Andromeda and Milky-way to meets each other
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I plan on being around to witness this event.
You will be, but not conscious 😂
Thank you for the video! I suggest you do one on “how lucky we are” to live in this time in the universe/this side of the galaxy/etc. and how much more challenging studying the universe might have been.
When you say it could shortly form a quasar, would that grill everything in the galaxy ? Wasnt that like super dangerous ?
The dipole jets of a quasar blast perpendicular to the galactic plane. That galactic plane is where most star systems orbit so the answer is no. It would only grill the stars that lie outside of that plane such as those inhabiting the central bulge or satellite galaxies.
An intra-galactic quasar may be perpendicular to the galactic plane, but Andromeda isn't arriving horizontally, so there is a possibility that the jets from the inter-galactic quasar could sweep across the new Home-Galaxy, sterilising all multi-cellular life.
Wouldn't the galactic plane be the plane of the combination of the two galaxies after combining and so one big happy when the quasar ignites?
I love the questions about cosmology and astrophysics!:)
Reckless Roges It won’t sterilize all life due to the fact that stars are so far apart that at least 1 trillion planets at minimum will be spared.
By 4 billion years humans will be a distant ancestor of the lifeforms that inhabit Earth and other planets we may have colonized. What species is expected to stagnate for 4 billion years? Also, we will probably have figured out how to extend our star's life span by harvesting materials from it well before 4 billion years.
Before that, let us hope there won't be a third world war😂
Having been to the South, I can attest that humans can stagnate for at least a few centuries unfazed.
I seriously doubt humans will ever colonize anything past Mars.
Perhaps you underestimate how we are like an infestation. We spread to new areas and proliferate rapidly. We drain resources without considering consequences. If there is profit to be had in any endeavor we will exploit it mercilessly. It may take a while to figure out how to do it. Look on the bright side, we might wipe ourselves out before we can spread.
Aric Majere yeah that's what I meant. Humans have a horrible ability of screwing things up.
Collapsing of the Universe. The next big bang.
Milkdromeda sounds like a name for a new Jamba juice smoothie
1000000000th life later: welp time to say my last words and respawn in another galaxy BAM next life:yay! oh come on! {another collide}
Too Funny!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Good thing I have notifications on for PBS Space Time, because it did not appear in my subscriptions
BaseDelta0 You should try subscribing.. Kappa
So, watching the two galactic centers (black holes) merge made me wonder: If both black holes were spinning in the same direction relative to each other (let's say clockwise), but the collision happened in a counterclockwise spin, would that change the spin of the black holes? Further, would that change the spin of the newly forming 'Milkdromeda' galaxy? If so, I feel like I need to start preparing for such a change... :)
Or one of the 2 blackholes would just flip. If you think about it, the rotation of the galaxy couldn't change, because at some point objects would need to reach a speed of 0 m/s relative to the core in order to change rotation side, making them fall in a straight line toward the center.
Depends if your in northern or southern hemisphere...
There's a pretty big mass difference between Sgr A* and Andromeda's SMB, 4 million solar masses vs over 100 million solar masses. If the collision were opposite Andromeda's SMB spin it would slow it down, perhaps tilt it somewhat but not enough to reverse it.
Milky Way: bro watch where your going I’m spinning Here
I just got served a 36 minute ad. LOL
THAT T-SHIRT!!!!!!!!
Awesome t shirt 😍😍
Wow! That sounds terrifying and amazing to watch!
If I was alive during the collision I would just be sat outside watching
Dark_ Void and if you think about it, you’d probably looking at the collision from Europa, titan or mars because of the sun in the process of being a red giant.
Edit: earth would be very hot by then
Matt makes anything sound like it’s not scary
Congratulations to Springville High School! That's just a short drive from me :)
If you could sacrifice the rest of your current life, your lifestyle, the people you know and care about, etc, and in exchange become an otherworldly spectator to watch the events of the universe unfold, time-lapsing at whatever speed you desire, would you?
The reference is Kokkoku, btw.
I'd miss bacon. And chocolate. I'm assuming I'd be detached from physical pleasures.
· 0xFFF1 yes, the universe is infinite and it would be awesome to drift in the cosmos for eternity
Without hesitation
Without hesitation
I would give up everything just to explore the endless space.
But you remember that the stars are so far apart that the chances of something bad happening with our solar system is very low: kalm
We are approaching Andromeda at about Mach 326!
Is the space between the Milkyway & Andromeda currently expanding at faster than Mach 326?
no
Knowing both how big the Andromeda galaxy really is and yet how small it looks in the sky truly makes me realize just how unimaginatively far away it must be! So anyone besides me that knows what I'm talkin about can comprehend that it just boggles the mind.!!
4-6 bilions years ay. What a time to be alive...
0:45 Sensual Bulge
Uriah Siner
Its central bulge, not sensual bulge. Clear your ear with those hardened earwax
It's clearly a joke. Clear your sense of humor.
OWO
Reptilligator whats this?
Does yours also hide a massive black hole? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I am crying of how beutiful space is... I LOVE IT! I just want to get to go there and somehow live long to see all of that... it would be amazing...maybe we could upload our brains on computers so we can see amazing space stuff in the future?
me too ;D it makes me sad and happy at the same time
Imagine an alien in andromeda whose perception of time was really slow just seeing the milky way swoop in super fast. It'd be terrifying
I guess we don't have to worry about traveling there. It is coming to us.
Andromeda is on a head on collision with us???!! I'm panicking!
Why
I wish I could take a glass of a heavy dose of being extremely clever :(
Funny to think that getting slingshotted into inter-galactic space might not actually affect us that much, assuming we never successfully become inter-stellar. (And without faster than light travel we probably never will.) We'll have a great view of the merged galaxy though.
8:36 -- I hate living in "the time before our collision with Andromeda." I wanna live in the time CLOSER to the collision of Andromeda... or maybe just AFTER the collision with Andromeda.
Just think: there was no one or nothing to see the eventuality of different clumps of stars colliding with other groupings of stars to accrete the Milky Way....
Jon Dunmore well by that time earth will be a planet like Venus hot and not habitable. That is if the sun yet has not cooked. The sun will evolve to red giant and consume all the planets up to mars and maybe earth at that time.
If Andromeda is bigger than the Milky Way, it should be "As the Milky Way plows headlong into Andromeda." (0:14)
Came to the comments for the Nick Lucid cameo, was not disappointed. Two treats in one: the Certs of science vids.
Won't the sun burnout and most likely destroy Earth before this happens anyway?
That’s what he just said
If we move to a new solar system or figure out how to make stars, we'll likely still be here in this same galaxy if still alive in some form, lol. So yea, beings could still be around to be affected at that point potentially, you just have to hope humanity somehow makes it out of this solar system alive and with the capability for sustained life elsewhere ;)
+Mohsin Mirza
Not if it learns to rest instead of just exhausting all its energy. I mean, what good is that doing :)
Your time is 8:20
Sun burn out in 8 billion yrs I thought
@@poopiettv5270 the life will end in 4 billion years as sun goes red gaint phase
I thought everything was moving away from each other as the universe expands.
Exactly in an open universe not a bubbled multiverse and andromeda's redshift velocity cannot be negative using the doppler effect on sound and light.
all a matter of scale & relativity!
Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts are up to no good
This guys accent is so calming
Even if it sounds creepy
So... by observation, the collision will be in 4.5 billion years. That means we will have information about it in 4.5 billion years ou it will happen in 4.5 billion years and we will have info much later than that? Considering the size of the milky way, the first option means it has already collided.
I wish I could be alive to see this lol this was my homework for science I did a slide on it
Hi! Thank you very much for the video!
Are there any news regarding the Event Horizon Telescope?
So in 6 billion years we will basically know there is life in other galaxies!
My theory!
We would die from the sun evaporating the oceans
My grandpa's cousin works for the company that made the lens on the Hubble Space Telescope in the 90s.
Science Asylum T-Shirt, nice!