30,000 Light-Year Region of the Renaissance Simulation (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

30,000 Light-Year Region of the Renaissance Simulation

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A 30,000 light-year region from the Renaissance Simulation centered on a cluster of young galaxies that generate radiation (white) and metals (green) while heating the surrounding gas. A dark matter halo just outside this heated region forms three supermassive stars (inset) each over 1,000 times the mass of our sun that will quickly collapse into massive black holes and eventually supermassive black holes over billions of years.

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Advanced Visualization Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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