Looming galactic collision will rip open the black hole at the Milky Way's center

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5. Astrophysicists would note that galaxies colliding does not mean that all of the..

..stars and planets would collide with each other.

Though galaxies have huge numbers of stars and other stellar bodies in them, they are still mostly empty space. The collision will be more of a coalescence of two galaxies to form a single new one.

It could feed matter into the super massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way (Sagittarius A*, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*) which could result in massive gamma ray bursts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst) that could fry planets.

But we'll all be dead before then.