A 300-Billion-Particle Milky Way Simulation Achieved with AI × Fugaku

An international collaborative research team including Keiya Hirashima, Special Postdoctoral Researcher, has achieved the world’s highest-resolution simulation of the Milky Way galaxy by utilizing the entire system of the AI and supercomputer “Fugaku” (approximately 150,000 nodes) and modeling 300 billion particles representing stars, interstellar gas, and other components—resolving the galaxy down to individual stars.

This research is expected to contribute to a better understanding of the Milky Way’s spiral arm structure (the arm-like features of spiral galaxies that extend outward from the center while winding across the galactic disk), the circulation of chemical elements within the galaxy, and the origins of the materials that formed the Solar System and life.

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