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« on: May 04, 2011, 03:21:21 PM »

When exactly is this supposed to happen?

I'm at 2.5 million million years and they just keep spiraling each other like a double helix. When will their galactic cores merge? What im seeing on the default layout isn't like what i've seen on TV/Docu previously. Am I doing something wrong? I just entered the default galaxy view and started speeding it up.

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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 03:25:39 PM »

odd, at around 8 million million years they both just kind of shot off in their own directions. Aren't the super massive black holes supposed to merge?

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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011, 03:33:28 PM »
Yes. They would merge in reality, but Universe Sandbox uses point masses for galaxies when in reality the mass is distributed. This is a known limitation of the software.
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« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2011, 03:37:55 PM »

Ah Ok Sad . It's still a great/fun piece of software. Excellent work. I've been wanting something like this for at least the past 2 years but didn't have the ability to create it myself. So, Thank you.

Now to go crash asteroids into mars.

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