Why are galaxies round as a pizza instead of round like a sphere?

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Why are galaxies round as a pizza instead of round like a sphere?

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Same reason pizzas are disks: a galaxy is a big amount of mass rotating in space, angular momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is dissipated as heat. Wait long enough and we have a disk.

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