Editing Local Group (section)

== Future ==
The galaxies of the Local Group are likely to merge together under their own mutual gravitational attractions over a timescale of [[Timeline of the far future|tens of billions of years]] into a single elliptical galaxy, with the [[Andromeda–Milky Way collision|coalescence of Andromeda and the Milky Way]] being the predominant event in this process.<ref>{{cite journal
 | author= Fred C. Adams
 | author2= Gregory Laughlin
 | title=A dying universe: the long-term fate and evolution of astrophysical objects
 | journal=Reviews of Modern Physics
 | date=1997
 | volume=69
 | issue=2
 | pages=337–372
 | bibcode=1997RvMP...69..337A
 | doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.69.337
 | arxiv=astro-ph/9701131 | s2cid= 12173790
 }}</ref>

[[File:Andromeda and Milky Way collision.ogv|thumb|upright=1.5|A [[NASA]] conception of the collision using [[computer-generated imagery]]]]