Heavy Elements (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Heavy Elements

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This simulation shows heavy-element-bearing sheets of an exploding star's debris streaming into the center of a cosmic dark matter halo. Upon arriving in the center, the streams will enable the formation of the first low-mass stars, when the universe was still only about 200 million years old.

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Jeremy Ritter, Milos Milosavljevic, and Volker Bromm, The University of Texas at Austin

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