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The Large Magellanic Cloud: Our Chaotic Galactic Neighbor
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A deep dive into the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s close galactic neighbor. We explore its impressive size, warped disk and tidal tug‑of‑war with the Milky Way and SMC, the Tarantula Nebula, and SN 1987A. We also examine the surprising evidence for a central black hole (~600,000 solar masses), how it may eject hypervelocity stars, and the dramatic forecast that the LMC will merge with the Milky Way in about 2.4 billion years, reshaping our galactic neighborhood.
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