Not if, not even when: galactic collisions are very,very common. Rarely the galaxies will just pass through the others; more often they will result in some combination of merging and then tossing out the matter that lies at the gravitational perifery.
Bigger galaxies. And stars.
If any galaxies actually collided on August 16, 2011, we won't know about it for some unknown number of millions of years, as the light of the collision reaches us. If we have just today observed that two distant galaxies appear to be colliding, then they collided some number of millions of years AGO, and the light of the event has just reached us.
They collided with another galaxy
the particles would split tocreate multiple unstoppable objects
you get freezing rain
Gradius Galaxies happened in 2001.
In all probability - not that this scenario would happen - but the resulting combination of masses, would push the combined "stars" over the Chandrasekhar limit and a black hole would form.
The kinetic energy would transfer Ping Pong ball!
People would bump into each other and jostle each other, and hopefully laugh about it.
we would be all screwed
They would become distorted due to gravitational affects
An irregular galaxy is a galaxy that doesn't have a specific shape like a pinwheel or an elliptical galaxy.