Understanding the formation and evolution of the centers of galaxies is one of the most intriguing challenges in astrophysics ...

A high-resolution galaxy simulation shows nuclear star clusters and stellar discs grow together, fed by gas driven inward by ...

Galaxy clusters represent the largest gravitationally bound systems in the Universe, formed by the hierarchical assembly of dark-matter haloes and the baryonic gas that accumulates within them. The ...

Star clusters arise within the densest cores of molecular clouds, where gravity drives the collapse of gas and dust to form stars nearly simultaneously. Their formation is regulated by the complex ...

Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team's findings, published on March 13 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, show that turbulent conditions in the ...

Using a state-of-the-art galaxy simulation, a team led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) gained new insights into the processes shaping galactic centres across ...