MEGATRON simulations suggest the Milky Way formed through the collisions and mergers of thousands of small galaxies in the ...

A new supercomputer simulation traces how thousands of small galaxies eventually became the Milky Way.

Long before it became the luminous spiral galaxy we call home, the Milky Way was a sprawling, chaotic swarm of thousands of ...

At the heart of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole. They’re the most massive objects in the universe, ...

Could black holes have planets? New research says yes, they could. New simulations suggest massive planets could form in the ...

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of ...

Explore the center of our own galaxy like never before. This stunning animation takes you on a breathtaking trip through the ...

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

Galactic black holes are cosmic mitochondria, powerhouses of the universe. Most of the energy these supermassive black holes produce comes from the material surrounding them: superheated plasma in ...

A new simulation shows a possible scenario for the formation of the Milky Way. According to this scenario, at the very ...

The MEGATRON simulations model how thousands of early galaxies, including starless gas systems, merged and evolved into a Milky Way-like galaxy after the Big Bang.

University of Chicago-led MEGATRON simulations show the early Milky Way neighborhood as thousands of diverse proto-galaxies ...