Scientists describe the collision of a shockwave and a 'star cradle'

A mathematician from MSU together with a Russian colleague modeled the formation of filaments (thread-like matter conglomerates) after the collision of a shockwave with molecular clouds in interstellar space. The work will help the scientists better understand the birth of stars and star systems. The results of the study were published in Computers and Fluids magazine.

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Credit: Valery Goryachev and Boris Rybakin

The formation of filaments upon the collision of a shock wave with two molecular clouds.

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Neutron stars colliding.

 

Astronomers have made the groundbreaking detection of two neutron stars colliding in a galaxy 130 million light years away. They detected the gravitational waves AND the blast of radiation released from the collision, observing a kilonova for the first time.