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Showing posts with label Carnegie Mellon University. Show all posts

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Milky Way-like galaxies may have existed in the early universe

A new, large-scale computer simulation has shown for the first time that large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the universe.

Carnegie Mellon University’s current simulation, called BlueTides, is 100 times larger than previous simulations