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The Milky Way is moving through the Universe and its path is influenced by the combined gravitational pulls of nearby galaxies, such as Andromeda, the Triangulum galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. As such, previous research has suggested for over a decade that the Milky Way has a high likelihood of colliding with Andromeda, forming a new galaxy dubbed ‘Milkomeda’, in approximately five billion years.

Till Sawala and colleagues simulated the Milky Way’s movement through the Universe over the next 10 billion years using updated data from the Gaia and Hubble telescopes and revised estimates of the masses of local galaxies. They found that there is an approximately 50% chance that there will be no Milky Way–Andromeda collision in that time period.