News tagged with computational cosmology

A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi, snagged in a search by a robotic telescope, turns out to be the first example of the kind of stars that first ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 6

Cosmologists 'see' the cosmic dawn

(PhysOrg.com) -- The images, produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, show the "Cosmic Dawn" - the formation of the first big galaxies in the Universe.

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created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (21) | comments 18

Astrophysicists report first simulation to create a Milky Way-like galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- After nine months of number-crunching on a powerful supercomputer, a beautiful spiral galaxy matching our own Milky Way emerged from a computer simulation of the physics involved in galaxy ...

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created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Early galaxy went through 'teenage growth spurt,' scientists say (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found a massive galaxy in the early Universe creating stars like our sun up to 100 times faster than the modern-day Milky Way.

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created Mar 21, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Madly Mapping the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing ...

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stellar discovery

On August 24, astrophysicist Peter Nugent was playing a little catch-up. Nugent, an adjunct professor at Berkeley and group leader of the Computational Cosmology Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies

The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University.

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1