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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Website: www.mpa-garching.mpg.de
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
85748 Garching
85748 Garching
Phone: +49 89 30000-0
Fax: +49 89 30000-2235
Fax: +49 89 30000-2235
Your search for a telescope at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching will be in vain: the scientists there work mainly on theory. A core area is the numerical simulation of astrophysical systems with high-performance and ultra-high performance computers. The research on star formation and hydrodynamic phenomena – such as colliding stars, supernova explosions or matter in accretion disks around black holes – is complemented by studies of structure formation in the Universe as a further key research field. The astrophysicists use computer simulations to model how galaxies and stars formed from primordial matter: how everything grew out of nothing. In addition, the researchers develop algorithms to analyse the vast amounts of data produced in ever-larger simulations and satellite missions.
Research Focus
- Martin Asplund (Stellar physics)
- Wolfgang Hillebrandt (Stellar physics)
- Rashid Sunyaev (High Energy Astrophysics)
- Simon D.M. White (Cosmology)
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