It’s difficult to predict with certainty what will happen when giant stars collide, but new, first-of-their-kind hydrodynamic simulations by the DEMOBLACK team at the University of Padova in Italy ...

Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ...

(Nanowerk News) Macquarie University astrophysicists have collaborated in the development of “Octo-Tiger,” a breakthrough astrophysics code to more efficiently model stellar collisions. The code ...

A simulation showed black holes with masses between 100 and 10,000 times that of the sun could be born through a chaotic chain of stellar collisions. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The detection of gravitational waves in 2023 revealed a cosmic event that seemed to overturn known laws of astrophysics, ...

A new breakthrough astrophysics code, named Octo-Tiger, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to ...

Two astronomers think they've pinpointed the ancient stellar collision that gave our solar system its cache of precious gold and platinum -- some of it, anyway.In a new study published May 1 in the ...

This illustration shows the orbits of stars very close to Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Despite their ancient ages, some stars orbiting the Milky Way’s ...