{"id":243825,"date":"2026-09-09T05:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/astrid-traces-13-5-billion-years-of-black-hole-and-galaxy-evolution"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:03:57","slug":"astrid-traces-13-5-billion-years-of-black-hole-and-galaxy-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/astrid-traces-13-5-billion-years-of-black-hole-and-galaxy-evolution","title":{"rendered":"ASTRID traces 13.5 billion years of black hole and galaxy evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrid-traces-13-5-billion-years-of-black-hole-and-galaxy-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope are helping astrophysicists probe deep cosmic mysteries, including the evolution of black holes and galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>Using supercomputers to help make sense of the data, researchers from multiple institutions worked together to complete the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, called ASTRID\u2014a mind-boggling computational run that traces the evolution of the universe from its earliest times to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope are helping astrophysicists probe deep cosmic mysteries, including the evolution of black holes and galaxies. Using supercomputers to help make sense of the data, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}