{"id":261782,"date":"2023-09-26T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=261782"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:55:01","slug":"galactic-tides-pushing-and-pulling-the-heavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/galactic-tides-pushing-and-pulling-the-heavens\/","title":{"rendered":"Galactic tides: Pushing and pulling the heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cGalactic tides: Pushing and pulling the heavens<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 26th September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article talks about the Galactic Tides.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Galactic Tides?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Galactic tides are a gravitational phenomenon that occurs within galaxies, including our Milky Way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are similar to Earth&#8217;s ocean tides but on a much larger scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">caused by gravitational forces within a galaxy arising in the interactions between celestial objects like stars and gas clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How does Galactic Tides influence various aspects of a galaxy\u2019s evolution?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they can reshape a galaxy structure by creating tidal tails and bridges, promoting star formation, and disrupting smaller star systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they can disrupt the orbits of stars, leading to gradual and long-term changes in a galaxy&#8217;s structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thirdly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> galactic tides also have a say in the ways in which proximate galaxies do and don\u2019t interact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Researchers have observed the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, the colossal Andromeda, and found that tidal streams near its edges could be signatures of dwarf galaxies that were later devoured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Andromeda galaxy is heading towards the Milky Way and will collide in four billion years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fourthly,<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they also affect the supermassive black holes at galaxy centers, leading to events that change the ways in which these cosmic beasts interact with nearby stars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGalactic tides: Pushing and pulling the heavens\u201d \u00a0published in The Hindu on 26th September 2023 What is the News? This article talks about the Galactic Tides. What are Galactic Tides? Galactic tides are a gravitational phenomenon that occurs within galaxies, including our Milky Way.\u00a0 They are similar&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/galactic-tides-pushing-and-pulling-the-heavens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Galactic tides: Pushing and pulling the heavens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-261782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}