Galaxy Collision (Newtonian toy model)pic.twitter.com/WPAP6aNOpD
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Calculation is in the frame where the CM of the white galaxy is at rest •Ignored the pairwise interactions between the orbiting bodies •The initial "flailing out" of the blue galactic arms is because i accidentally (?) gave the particles too much initial angular momentum
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Source code for galactic collision simulation: https://github.com/InertialObservr/twitter_gifs/blob/master/galaxy_collision.nb … If you find it useful or want to support me in general, here's my Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/inertialobserver …
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So every body is interacting only with the system's center of mass?
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every body is subject to two gravitational potentials (the center of each galaxy)
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You can never have too much angular momentum -every perturbation approach shudders in fear-
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What software do you use for this?
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