Why Galaxies Are Flat?
We See It Side-on as a Thin, Glittering Streak Across the Sky, with All Its Contents Neatly Aligned in the Same Plane. We See So Many Galaxies Like This...
We see it side-on as a thin, glittering streak across the sky, with all its contents neatly aligned in the same plane. We see so many galaxies like this — flat, stretched-out pancakes — that our brains barely process their shape. ... This effect is due to conservation of angular momentum, and it's true for galaxies, too.
Why are galaxies flat and not spherical?
As these objects collide any upward or downward motion is progressively cancelled out, while the conservation of angular momentum dictates that they must keep spinning around the same axis, resulting in a flat, disc-like shape.
Why does the Milky Way galaxy appear to be flat?
"Our results show that the Milky Way Galaxy is not flat. It is warped and twisted far away from the galactic centre. Warping may have happened through past interactions with satellite galaxies, intergalactic gas or dark matter (invisible material present in galaxies about which little in known)."
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