Let me just say before we get to anything else that spiral galaxies are awesome. I talk about this with the universe from time to time, and it was only recently that he burst my bubble by explaining that these types of galaxies are actually just birthday cake decorations for the multiverse.
Every time a universe in the multiverse (these are the cosmic guys and gals MY universe hangs out with when I am not in the Bardot to keep him company) has a birthday all the other universes get together and sign a card and decorate the cake with a big old spiral galaxy.
Then the birthday universe has to blow all the candles on the cake out and make a wish, which usually has something to do with space-time not ending and all that. The candles are of course stars and there are about a trillion of them in a decent spiral galaxy so when a birthday universe gets ready to blow them all out he or she has to take a really, REALLY deep breath which they usually do by taking the most supermassive black hole they can find and inhaling everything for parsecs around it in and then blowing it all out at one time and extinguishing all those stars.
Kablooie.
Which let me tell you has to be a big damn shock for all the trillions of creatures living in those birthday cake galaxies, let me tell you truly. How would you feel about it if your own star and even your entire galaxy suddenly WENT OUT all of a sudden like in a giant disaster movie? Poof. You would be extremely pissed I assure you, especially if you had meaningful dinner plans, like in, you were planning to eat dinner and now that was off.
Forever.
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