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April 25, 2018

Assembly of Massive Galaxy Cluster Witnessed for the First Time By Thomas Sumner
Artistic illustration of newly discovered group of interacting and merging galaxies in the early universe

March 22, 2018

Hubble Telescope Reveals Source of Gas Streaming Into Milky Way By Thomas Sumner
A photo mosaic of an edge-on view of the Milky Way galaxy, looking toward the central bulge. The arc-shaped Magellanic Stream stretches below the galaxy’s plane and the shredded, fragmented Leading Arm crosses the galaxy’s plane and extends above it

March 19, 2018

Cosmologists Create Largest Simulation of Galaxy Formation, Breaks Their Own Record, Gauss Center for Supercomputing
Composite which combines gas temperature (as the color) and shock mach number (as the brightness). Red indicates 10 million Kelvin gas at the centers of massive galaxy clusters, while bright structures show diffuse gas from the intergalactic medium shock heating at the boundary between cosmic voids and filaments

January 31, 2018

New Universe Simulation Reveals High-Resolution Details About Cosmological Structures
Rendering of the gas velocity in a thin slice of 100 kiloparsec thickness (in the viewing direction), centred on the second most massive galaxy cluster in the TNG100 calculation

December 06, 2017

Newly Discovered Goliath Galaxies from Early Universe Hint at Massive Dark Matter Trove By Thomas Sumner
Digital illustration of two titanic galaxies inhabited the early universe just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang

March 17, 2017

How Supermassive Black Holes Can Form Without Collapsing Stars
An illustration of light from a galaxy on the left bursting with new stars, which enables a nearby galaxy on the right of the illustration to collapse directly into a black hole

October 19, 2016

Colliding Galaxies Move From the Lab to the Movies
A snapshot of the visualization from Voyage of Time shows the entanglement of two colliding galaxies
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