The universe really looked at the Milky Way and said, 'You know what would fix you? A giant cosmic bratwurst delivering a rear-end collision.'
The Milky Way May Have Flipped Sideways… After a Collision With a Sausage-Shaped Galaxy
Astronomers found evidence that the Milky Way's tilted warp was caused by a collision with a dwarf galaxy nicknamed the 'Gaia Sausage' about 8 billion years ago. That sausage-shaped merger knocked our spiral disk into its current slanted orientation.
Source: The Milky Way May Have Flipped Sideways… After a Collision With a Sausage-Shaped Galaxy — ScienceAlert
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