Physicists from the Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne National Laboratory) in Chicago, used the supercomputer IBM Blue Gene / P, to simulate extreme physics of the explosion supernovy - supernova. As a result, scientists have been very interesting visualized model, which can represent the image is not necessarily scientific but also artistic value. Abstract from the physical sense.
Supercomputer visualization shows the mechanism of death massive stars with short life cycles. The picture - the calculated energy in the nucleus of a supernova. Different colors and transparency related to the different meanings of entropy. When setting these parameters, researchers can circumvent the outer layers and look inside the star.
Computer snapshot of the supernova type Ia (subcategory tsefeid) immediately after the moment of detonation. Number of released energy equivalent to 10 ^ 27 hydrogen bombs, each of 10 megatons of TNT equivalent. This energy makes a huge explosion of such stars among the brightest in the universe, they are also used as indicators of distance in cosmology.
Continued. Sam blast lasts less than 5 seconds, but used a supercomputer, more than 160 thousand processors and 22 million hours of computing for the simulation.
Three visualization of nuclear processes in a supernova. The image on the left shows nuclear “tongues of flame”, the rest - the rate of fusion reactions .
Three-dimensional image simulating a supernova type Ia. Were sealed immediately after the outbreak of the initiating process of the nuclear bubble near the center of the former white dwarf, shown in blue. Push forces are forced to “bubble” to move rapidly to the surface of the white dwarf.