After 9 months of number crunching on a powerful supercomputer, a beautiful spiral galaxy matching our own Milky Way emerged from a computer simulation of the physics involved in galaxy formation ...

Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself ...

One of the most powerful tools for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies has been the use of computer simulations–numerical models of astrophysical processes run on supercomputers and ...

Cosmologists create largest simulation of galaxy formation, break their own record A multi-institutional team gives the cosmology community a world-class simulation to study how the universe formed.

Researchers have unveiled a new computer simulation that mirrors early universe conditions. In collaboration with the US' Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers from Maynooth University in ...

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large ...

The simulation used to model the genesis of the galaxy featured up top is based on calculations first published in a 2010 issue of the journal Nature by Lucio Mayer — an astrophysicist at the ...

A simulation of galaxy formation by UCSC astrophysicists solves a longstanding problem in cosmology.

Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself.

“This is the first simulation that is able to resolve the high-density clouds of gas where star formation occurs, and the result is a Milky Way type of galaxy with a small bulge and a big disk.