The Cosmic Wobble: A Breakthrough in Understanding Planet Formation Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) recently uncovered a new mechanism that may explain how planets take shape from swirling disks of matter around stars and black holes. By s... accretion disks astrophysics laboratory experiments magnetic fields magnetorotational instability planet formation plasma physics turbulence
Supercomputers Are Untangling the Mysteries of Cosmic Rays and Galaxy Formation at Cornell Recent breakthroughs by Cornell-led researchers, powered by cutting-edge supercomputing, are transforming our grasp of how cosmic rays behave and, by extension, how galaxies form and evolve. Cosmic Ra... astrophysics cosmic rays cosmology DOE research galaxies magnetic fields supercomputing