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US Lab Models Galaxy Cluster Merger

Posted by samzenpus on from the we're-going-to-need-more-ram dept.

astroengine writes "The scales are mind-boggling and the physics is cutting edge, so how do you go about simulating the collision of two galactic clusters? Using some of the most powerful computers in the world, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, the Flash Center at the University of Chicago and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have done just that."

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  1. Does this qualify as a big bang? by ctmurray · · Score: 3, Funny

    When two such large object collide in outerspace does it make any noise?

    1. Re:Does this qualify as a big bang? by trashpickinman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whoosh... Thats the sound of a joke going over your head.

    2. Re:Does this qualify as a big bang? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's sound, Jim, but not as we know it.

    3. Re:Does this qualify as a big bang? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whoosh... Thats the sound of a joke going over your head.

      If a joke goes over your head in outer space, does it make a woosh?

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    4. Re:Does this qualify as a big bang? by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm not sure about a big bang, but it's definitely a cluster f*.

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  2. Merger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a merger that size, the job losses must be astronomical.

  3. Re:Near one of those simulated stars . . . by toastar · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . does it have a planet with living beings running astronomical computer simulations?

    not anymore

  4. no sound, but it makes a huge... by thejuggler · · Score: 2, Funny

    disturbance in The Force.

  5. Re:Flash Center by sensationull · · Score: 3, Funny

    Flash, What better platform is there for simulating something that takes billions of years.

  6. The Flash Center? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh man, Apple's going to be pissed!