The gorgeous animation is the most realistic of its kind to date, according to the team, and could teach us valuable lessons about how stars are formed in the universe. The computational framework, ...

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Scientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in the formation of a black hole and a jet. The breakthrough will massively ...

The most realistic computer simulation of star formation yet offers stunning views of what the inside of a stellar nursery might look like. In the Star Formation in Gaseous Environments simulation, or ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. You probably don’t think about stars all that often. Sure, the world revolves around one of ...

Stars are a miraculous balance between the pull of gravity and the extreme pressure from a star’s white hot core pushing back. From this equilibrium, heat and energy churn in a complex — and brutally ...

Investigations into dark matter have revealed meaningful insights about the birth of the first-ever stars in the universe. Details regarding the investigation have been published in The Astrophysical ...

Our lives happen in the blink of an eye compared to the course of a star’s lifetime. Now, a team of scientists have developed a realistic and colorfully stunning simulation of what just the beginning ...

PhD candidate Eva Laplace (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) will receive the ET Outreach Award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. She is awarded the communication prize ...