prokopetz:crystalsoulslayer:procyonvulpecula:pagannerd:proxydialogue:anneretic:infinity-imagined:The
prokopetz:crystalsoulslayer:procyonvulpecula:pagannerd:proxydialogue:anneretic:infinity-imagined:The collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.the grand showdownAndromeda is a bit bigger than us. So when that happens, Andromeda’s black hole is gonna consume our black hole in a vicious act of galactic canabalism. Which is an actual term used in astronomy apparently. “Galactic Cannabalism” sounds like an electro/death metal fusion band.Galactic cannibalism is one of my favourite astronomical terms, but it doesn’t beat the term used for the stretching out into a long thin tube that occurs when something falls into a black hole (spaghettification) or the term used for a rock thought to be a meteorite but which later turns out to be an ordinary terrestrial rock (meteowrong).SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIt’s an aerospace term rather than an astronomical one, but I’ve always had a soft spot for “lithobraking”.(In aerospace lingo, ”aerobraking” is shedding velocity by interacting with the atmosphere. Similarly, “hydrobraking” is shedding velocity by interacting with the hydrosphere. “Lithobraking” is shedding velocity by interacting with the lithosphere - or, in plain English, by flying into the ground.) -- source link