Despite what their names might suggest, black holes are some of the brightest objects in the universe. The glow comes from the gas and dust that flow around and into a blackhole. The most ...

As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller ...

Wolfgang Maaß (left), doctoral research student Hannah Stein and researcher Ankit Agrawal (right) are working with partners from industry and academia to harness the power of quantum computational ...

Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a process called "spaghettification." New simulations provide the most detailed look ever at the gory interaction.

Molecular Dynamics Simulations are grounded in classical mechanics, particularly Newton’s laws of motion, to predict how particles move within a system. The force acting on each atom is calculated ...