A calamitous clash with an adjacent galaxy in two billion years’ time could hit the Milky Way in the near future. The clash which could awake Milky Way galaxy’s dormant black hole and might send our Solar System shooting into space. This data has been found by some astrophysicists from Durham University, UK. Astrophysicists are predicting that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) would be hitting the Milky Way in two billion years’ time

However, scientists are predicting that the collision can happen much earlier than forecasted collision between the Milky Way and its adjoining galaxy, Andromeda. And in eight billion years the adjoining galaxy might hit our galaxy.

The now-active black hole would be sending out high-energy radiation. Even though these cosmic fireworks won’t be affecting life on Earth; however, scientists are assuming that there is a high likelihood of the collision sending our Solar System speeding into space.

Galaxies such as our own Milky Way are encircled by a group of smaller satellite galaxies that revolve around them, in the same manner through which bees move around a hive.

Generally, these satellite galaxies lead a reticent life and rotate around their hosts for billions of years. However, occasionally, they sink to the centre, clash and are destroyed by their host galaxy.

The LMC is the radiant satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and it only entered our neighborhood only 1.5 billion years ago. It sits about 163,000 light years from the Milky Way. Till recently astronomers thought that for many billions of years it would either revolve the Milky Way, or, in case it moves very fast, it can escape from our galaxy’s gravitational pull.

However, recent analysis hints that the LMC has roughly twice as much dark matter than it was thought previously.

The study released stated that the LMC is very quickly losing energy and is destined to clash with our galaxy. The researchers including those from University of Helsinki, Finland, used the EAGLE galaxy formation supercomputer simulation in order to forecast the clash.

Marius Cautun, a postdoctoral fellow in Durham University stated that in comparison to human lifetime, two billion years is a very long time, but on cosmic timescale it’s very short.