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Date: November, 2024
Director: Hinako Fukushi
Lighting Designer: Makoto Shizugami
Photographer: Shogo Nagayama
Credit: NAOJ
撮影日：2024年11月
ディレクター：福士比奈子
ライティング：清水上誠
撮影者：長山省吾
クレジット：国立天文台
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across.
As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density.
As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest.
By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole's event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun.
Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year.
The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA's Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts.
This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/index.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Fujitsu VP2600 supercomputer, dates from around 1991. The machine consists of about six cabinets this size.
Date: November, 2024
Director: Hinako Fukushi
Lighting Designer: Makoto Shizugami
Photographer: Shogo Nagayama
Credit: NAOJ
撮影日：2024年11月
ディレクター：福士比奈子
ライティング：清水上誠
撮影者：長山省吾
クレジット：国立天文台
Fairbanks to Anchorage. University of Alaska, Fairbanks has one of the largest supercomputers in the world.
Brainwaves, our mini festival of brain, mind and consciousness, explored one of the most mysterious objects in the universe through a mind-blowing selection of stimulating encounters with our own personal supercomputers.
Photography by Chris Scott
Faculty delegation from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, visting the world's second-fastest computer (for now) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center
The Silverstone SST-1000w PSU installed. there is a filtered intake it sits over and it exhausts out the back. The case has filtered side air intakes and another at the front bottom of the case (also filtered). Two 180mm fans sit above the PSU area and they draw air into the main area of the case.
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FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
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FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
045
FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
045
FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
045
FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
December 1st, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
2:50 PM
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER
Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?
Speaker:
Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum
Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell
Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE
Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH