Physics

Interactive simulations of the Cygnus system

Stellar Evolution

Life & Death of a Star

Follow a star from fusion to supernova, neutron star, and finally a feeding black hole.

Launch simulation
Active Galactic Nuclei

Binary Black Hole

Two supermassive black holes orbit a shared core, shepherding a superheated accretion disk.

Launch simulation
Alcubierre Metric

The Warp Bubble

How the Surveyor-9 crossed ten million light-years without ever moving through space.

Kardashev Scale

Dyson-Scale Harvest

Type I to Type III. What it takes to wrap a civilization around a binary black hole.

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