2020.9
A New Galactic Middle Journey in Digital Actuality
Christopher Russell, Baltasar Luco, Jorge Cuadra, and Miguel Sepúlveda
- A brand new visualization, “Galactic Middle VR,” options simulations of fabric streaming towards the Milky Method’s supermassive black gap referred to as Sgr A*.
- Customers can expertise the final 500 years of cosmic evolution on this space in a free digital actuality program.
- Blue and cyan present the simulation’s X-ray emission from sizzling gasoline because of the supersonic wind collisions noticed by Chandra.
- By offering a six-degrees-of-freedom (“6dof”) VR expertise, the person can look and transfer in any course they select.
Extra data: @ NASA Press launch with video.
Reference: Russell, C. et al. 2017, MNRAS, 464, 4958, arXiv:1607.01562
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