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Astrophysicists reconstruct the Milky Way’s family tree – Big Think
A team of astrophysicists uses AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy.
- Scientists use artificial intelligence to reconstruct the globular clusters that merged to form our Milky Way galaxy.
- The researchers ran simulations on a neural network to discover the history and details about our galactic ancestors.
- Collision with a previous galaxy called “Kraken” was so powerful it transformed the Milky Way, found the astrophysicists.
The Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our Solar System, is estimated to be about 13.6 billion years old. But what was there before? A loaded question…
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