Will the Large Magellanic Cloud "destroy" the Milky Way in under 300 million years?

Question

I keep running simulations of the local galaxies on Universe Sandbox, and every time a large magellanic cloud (a relatively small irregular gassy galaxy near the Milky Way) collides with the core of the Milky way in just under 300 million years, the simulations differ, but most of the time it predicts a catastrophic collision of the cores, the shock of which knocks the core of the Milky Way off it's current course at a relatively fast speed that leaves half the stars (mostly middle and outer stars) out of orbit of the Milky Way completely! The effect is similar to a diamond ring, an expanding ring of dust and stars with the core of the Milky way expanding at one end. Could this really happen?

Answer 1

Maybe, maybe not.

According to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_Sandbox

"Galaxy simulations don't consider dark matter or account for the galaxy rotation problem"



Maybe we have the good luck to be living a mere 300 million years from inevitable disaster. It's interesting that over in the Andromeda Galaxy M31, people there running their copies of Universe Sandbox may be looking at similar predictions for themselves. M31's companion galaxies M32 and NGC 205 are visible in fairly small amateur telescopes.

Answer 2

I think it's possible the milky way will be gone in less than a thousand years but not by a magellanic cloud.

Answer 3

Probably not.

I am not particularly inclined to believe that you have run any successful simulations as you describe

Answer 4

Koran must have predicted that too.

Answer 5

sure bud