Interacting Galaxies

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4829. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Galactic Models And Concepts

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Galaxies that interact with each other during close encounters or collisions. In a close encounter between two galaxies, both are distorted by gravitational tidal forces. Typically, matter will be pulled into bulges on both sides of each galaxy and, depending on the angular momentum (a quantity that depends on the distribution of mass and rotational velocity within each galaxy) of each galaxy and...

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