Thursday, November 27, 2025

Massive Computer Simulation Creates a Hyper-Realistic Model of the Milky Way

Panoramic view of the Milky Way galaxy taken by the ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project. Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

Research led by the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan has successfully performed the world’s first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 billion individual stars over the course of 10,000 years.



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