Artificial intelligence (AI) has again completed a pursuit thought to be almost "impossible" by humans. It creates a Milky Way simulation showcasing the progress of more than 100 billion individual ...

Understanding the formation and evolution of the centers of galaxies is one of the most intriguing challenges in astrophysics ...

Using an advanced galaxy simulation, a Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)-led research team gained new insights ...

A high-resolution galaxy simulation shows nuclear star clusters and stellar discs grow together, fed by gas driven inward by ...

AI-boosted simulation models one hundred billion Milky Way stars over ten thousand years, achieving one hundred times the detail and speed for astrophysics and climate modeling. (Nanowerk News) ...

A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not the one we thought. Reading time 2 minutes For over a decade, researchers ...

So far, almost all stellar-mass black holes detected by astronomers have been found in binary systems. However, astronomers ...

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The Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars may once have flipped onto its side. If it did, the Sun turned with it, along with the rest of ...

Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model.