Supercomputer
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Searching for Cosmic X-Ray Signposts of Elusive Continuous Gravitational Waves
Artist’s impression of one potential source of continuous gravitational waves – Asymmetric accretion onto a spinning neutron star. Credit: Mark…
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How a Giant Impact Could Have Formed the Moon
Credit: Durham University Pioneering scientists from Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology used the most detailed supercomputer simulations yet to…
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NASA Scientists Use Discover Supercomputer To Create Black Hole Jets
Simulated black hole jets spin and sweep past in this animation. The jets, which contain particles moving near the speed…
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Cataclysmic Neutron Star Mergers and the Origin of Elements in the Universe
An image of a neutron star merger and a kilonova. Credit: Tohoku University For the first time, a group of…
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Millions of Supercomputer-Generated “Universes” Reveal How Black Holes Grow
How it works: Using trial and error, machine learning tests many different pairings of simulated galaxies and black holes created…
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Cosmic Conundrum Cracked: Scientists Solve the Riddle of the Milky Way’s Satellite Galaxies
One of the new high-resolution simulations of the dark matter enveloping the Milky Way and its neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy.…
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New Model Explains Two Puzzling Planetary Mysteries
An illustration of the variations among the more than 5,000 known exoplanets discovered since the 1990s. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new…
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Science & Technology
James Webb Space Telescope Looks Back Into the Early Universe, Sees Galaxies Like Our Milky Way
This simulation shows both how stellar bars form (left) and the bar-driven gas inflows (right). Stellar bars play an important…
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New Study Suggests Dark Matter May Be Made of Dark Photons
2D projection of the cosmic web as obtained from a supercomputer simulation. Credit: Dr. Ewald Puchwein and the Sherwood-Relics collaboration…
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The Hunt for Cosmic Dawn: HERA Doubles Sensitivity to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe
The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) consists of 350 dishes pointed upward to detect 21-centimeter emissions from the early…
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