At about 21:46, Idranil Banik talks about the timing of a possible interaction. Granted he discusses the topic greatly before this point, but the key here is the timing. Under Newtonian gravity.

About 33:08 he discusses this same interactions timing under MOND. You can see about 3 GYr is the time frame his graph is showing.

 

 

 

Backed up by this observation. Granted the Phys.org article is using normal graviational models and not MOND which will impact the date range, but the range is 6-10, which should be sufficient to coincide with the earlier prediction by Banik. Remember, MOND gravity is stronger and things happen earlier. Its how you get larger structures than are possible with lambda CDM.

 

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-massive-collision-milky.html

 

Interesting.

 

Even more interesting is the alignment between Andromeda and M81.

 

 

A zoomed out view…

 

 

And in case you’re wondering… Just as our sun enters its later red giant phase, about 4 billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda will collide. We won’t be here to see it, as our sun is likely to engulf Mercury, Venus and the Earth as it swells while fusing heavier elements. Jupiter will be nice and homey. Maybe the view from Ganymede will look something like this