New Simulation Reveals Early Milky Way's Formation
Summary
A new simulation reveals how thousands of small galaxies merged over billions of years to form the early Milky Way. The research, led by Harley Katz at the University of Chicago, offers new predictions for what early galaxies may have looked like to telescopes such as Hubble and James Webb.
Key Points
- A new simulation models the Milky Way’s formation from thousands of small galaxies in the early universe.
- The project, named Megatron, took three years to run on high-performance supercomputers and is the most detailed model of its kind.
- The simulation helps predict how early galaxies would appear to telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope.
- The research papers have been published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics.
