No two galaxy collisions are alike. This one has only 1 million stars but it’s just spectacular. Check out how fast that black hole is expelled from the resulting debris, and how it perturbs the stars on its way out. Can you spot it? ~= I guess I put too much dark matter in this one 😂
Two galaxies and their supermassive black holes are orbiting each other as they succumb to the relentless pull of their mutual gravity. Inevitably, they will collide with fearsome violence and create a spectacular maelstrom of stars.
Programmed in C++ with OpenCV and CUDA. Although each point in this animation is moving according to Newton’s Law of Gravitation, it is not a scientifically accue simulation, and was created for its visuals. It took approximately 2h to simulate and render on an RTX4060ti GPU.
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