Well, M31 is probably somewhat larger than the Milky Way, but we're both pretty huge galaxies. So it's more of a mutual coming together than anything "aggressive" by one or the other!Phew! We won't be zapped by M33. Only cannibalised by M31!Be careful what you wish for, Christian...
Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy zapping its smaller neighbour with a deadly particle beam.
The beam is a jet of particles moving at near light-speed out of a super-massive black hole at the centre of the larger galaxy.
The beam has smashed into the nearby second galaxy, where it is probably destroying an untold number of planets.
"There will be bad effects on earth-like planets," says astronomer Dr Daniel Evans of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.![:ohno:]( "scared")
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