ELI5- Why are galaxies not shaped as Spheres?

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ELI5- Why are galaxies not shaped as Spheres?

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The gas galaxies form from will have completely random angular momentum but over time due to collisions all that will average out and you are left with only the average. If that galaxy then collides with another it can once again become randomly distributed.

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