The Milky Way Had A Cataclysmic Smash-Up With A ‘Sausage’ Galaxy

The shape of the Milky Way, with its inner bulge and outer halo, has long puzzled astronomers, but a cosmic crash with a sausage-shaped galaxy in its early history would have reshaped the structure in just that fashion.

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