Understanding the formation and evolution of the centers of galaxies is one of the most intriguing challenges in astrophysics ...

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths ...

Artist's conception of early starbursting galaxies. UC Davis astronomers collaborated on new simulations showing how bright galaxies could emerge early in the universe. Stars and galaxies are shown in ...

A new Milky Way-like galaxy simulation has revealed that nuclear star clusters and nuclear stellar disks can form together ...

The simulation results show that star formation in dwarf galaxies is closely linked to the supply of cold gas in the CGM. More than 40% to 70% of the galaxy's mass originates from gas inflows, and ...

Cold gas does not look dramatic at first glance. Neither does dust. Yet those two quiet ingredients sit at the center of a new effort to build a far more realistic picture of how galaxies formed. They ...

The Milky Way surrounded by its satellite galaxies, according to the Acquarius-A-L1 simulation. | Credit: The Aquarius simulation, the Virgo Consortium/Dr Mark Lovell. The Milky Way may be surrounded ...

Image: Snapshots of the time evolution of a collision of two spiral galaxies with black holes at their center from a computer simulation. Color indicates temperature and brightness the gas density.

Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe and among the most energetic. They outshine entire galaxies of billions of stars. A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every quasar, but not ...

The earliest galaxies are thought to have formed as the gravitational pull of dark matter, which has been impossible to study directly, slowly drew in enough hydrogen and helium to ignite stars. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today. (CREDIT: Monthly Notices ...