Are there a lot of collisions between stars in the core of the galaxy? I'm reading on Wikipedia about Halo Stars that orbit the center of the galaxy at a high inclination away from the plane of the Milky Way.  It seems that at some point, these stars must dive back into the core of our galaxy at very high relative velocities.  This causes me to wonder...wouldn't this, combined with the greater density of stars in the core, cause a large number of stellar collisions in the galactic core?
The answer is yes. Stellar collisions are events that occur mainly in Globular clusters due to their high stellar density. The likelihood of these events is highly dependent on the stellar density. As we know the galactic centers concentrate large amounts of matter and, of course, thousads of stars which are mainly in the old red main sequence. However, recent observations hane shown as the existence of young stellar clusters located in the Galactic center of Milky in contrast with our models and predictions about the galactic structures. It is currently believed that in these clusters occur a lot of stellar collisions. For more information there is a related paper here.