{"id":1855,"date":"2026-07-22T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/our-milky-way-galaxy-likely-underwent-disk-flip-after-ancient-galactic-collision-study\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:57:12","slug":"our-milky-way-galaxy-likely-underwent-disk-flip-after-ancient-galactic-collision-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/our-milky-way-galaxy-likely-underwent-disk-flip-after-ancient-galactic-collision-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Milky Way Galaxy Likely Underwent Disk Flip after Ancient Galactic Collision: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/2026\/07\/image_14935-Milky-Way-Disk-Flip.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Using supercomputer simulations of galaxies like the Milky Way, Batrakov et al. found that galaxies with slowly rotating stellar haloes are more likely to have experienced a major \u2018disk flip,\u2019 where our Galaxy\u2019s disk changed its orientation by more than 90 degrees. Image credit: Batrakov et al.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way\u2019s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal how violent mergers can leave spiral galaxies looking surprisingly normal today.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/astronomy\/milky-way-galaxy-disk-flip-14935.html\">Our Milky Way Galaxy Likely Underwent Disk Flip after Ancient Galactic Collision: Study<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way\u2019s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319,318],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-breaking-science-news","tag-sci-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}