Volker Springel, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics group at HITS, has assumed his new role as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching. As part of his farewell ...

The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for their defining contributions ...

Astrophysicists have gained new insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. They calculated how black holes influence the distribution of dark matter, how heavy elements are produced and ...

Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Germany are using powerful European supercomputers to simulate the universe from its birth to present day. To map the entire known Universe, ...

The astrophysicist Volker Springel has been honored with this year's Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize for Physics for his important research in astrophysics. The prize, worth 100,000 euros, is awarded ...

The gas column density 2.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gomez, Federico Marinacci, Ruediger Pakmor, Volker Springel, David J. R. Campbell, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian ...

Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself.

In this video from the PASC15 conference in Switzerland, Volker Springel from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies presents: Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation. Numerical simulations on ...