Using a novel simulation model based on machine learning, an international research team at GSI/FAIR has succeeded in gaining a deeper understanding of element formation in stellar events such as ...

For years, astrophysicists have argued over a deceptively simple question: how do pairs of black holes find each other, spiral inward, and collide? A new analysis of more than 150 binary black hole ...

Some of the universe's heaviest elements are born in chaos, in matter flung outward when neutron stars collide or massive stars explode. But one stubborn problem has limited how well scientists can ...