TruthSeekers NEWS Magazine Issue 2, 2016 | Page 15

Seeker - issue 2 TruthSeekersNews.com The center of Andromeda contains 26 mingled within the stars and moons and black holes, while many others are still Despite bumping into one another, the galaxies that surround us. We are but a being discovered. Very little is known fact remains there is a probability of life grain of sand in the scope of all that ex- about black holes, but a simple definition beyond the boundaries of the Earth and ist. It is humbling to think what we will explains them as a region of space with the Milky Way. It would be short sighted discover in the future. Like Andromeda a gravitational field unyielding to matter to believe the human race is alone in the and the Milky Way, science, astronomy and radiation. Simply put, nothing es- cosmos. Both film and television have and history are on their collision course, capes a black hole. done their best to conjure up little green incomprehensible beyond belief. men and flying saucers to the point Some believe the Milky Way will not of disbelief. But what if we were think Will we be content to be alone amongst escape colliding with Andromeda. The outside our solar system, maybe at the the stars? Or will we embrace an era that galactic collision will be catastrophic, chances of creatures living light years supersedes our loneliness? Will we bick- but not imminent. Predicted to occur in away on planets we will never inhabit? er over our interplanetary differences? around four billion years, there is noth- Perhaps these life forms aren’t carbon Or will we marvel at our celestial similar- ing relatively uncommon about the based or resemble anything remotely ities? Eventually there will come a time, event. It is likely Andromeda has collid- comparable in our imaginations. some believe sooner than later, when we ed with other galaxies in the past. Scien- realize our loneliness in universe is but a tists estimate the Andromeda Galaxy is Statistically speaking, life is possible on target towards the Milky Way at 100 outside of our universe. Questions will them kilometers per second. always remain, while answers lie inter- 15 distant memory.