Dear All,

An international team of experts from Europe and China has performed the first
simulations of globular clusters with a million stars on the high-performance
GPU cluster of the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility. These – up to now -
largest and most realistic simulations can not only reproduce observed properties
of stars in globular clusters at unprecedented detail but also shed light into
the dark world of black holes. The computer models produce high quality synthetic
data comparable to Hubble Space Telescope observations. They also predict nuclear
clusters of single and binary black holes. The recently detected gravitational
wave signal might have originated from a binary black hole merger in the center
of a globular cluster.

www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/328833/hl201603

All the best, Peter.

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Dr.Sci. Peter Berczik

Main Astronomical Observatory
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
MAO/NASU, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St.
03680 Kyiv, Ukraine

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