The inscription under the picture says: "Two remote galaxies are exposed to strange influence. NGC 2207 is on the left. The gravity of the larger galaxy affects its small neighbor extending the stars and gas for more than hundreds of thousand light years. To the right there is IC 2163. It moves relatively to the NGC 2207 counterclockwise and approached the latter most closely 40 million years ago. IC 2163 doesn't have enough energy to escape from its big neighbor and will eventually approach NGC 2207 closer and closer. Eventually, in many billions of years, these two galaxies will merge to form a single massive galaxy". Our answer: it is true, but it is Stellar Systems that are influenced, not the galaxies. By the way, Stellar Systems are also a typically terrestrial concept. In Mokayad (Intelligent Universe) such formations are called the Corporate Mothers' Community. For example this picture illustrates the Model merging of Mothers energetically gravitating toward a common center.