Long lost are the situations in which you had to observe a star or a galaxy with a telescope and mark all your observation on paper. Today you don’t even see the telescope or satellite, and you are even of a different continent than the instrument of observation. You only have your personal computer and […]
The battle between GPU(Graphical Processing Unit) and CPU(Central processing unit) is even more fierce in the realm of science where many disciplines use simulations. One of this is astrophysics where simulations of physical processces in the Universe play an important role. The main advantage of using the GPU is the price of hardware, you can […]
Do you know what a black hole is? Well yes, everybody knows by now what this monster is, an astrophysical object that can absorb everything, even light and from the insight of it there is no way out. But do you know how to measure it’s mass? In a recent article by B. Czerny and […]
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