ABSTRACT
The state of the art in computational astrophysics has rapidly advanced, enabled by the rapid growth in floating-point computational power as described by Moore’s law. Scientific discovery, enabled by computational modeling, has allowed us to gain a better understanding of the conditions present at the very birth of the universe as well as to better understand the birth and death of stars and the ultimate fate of the universe itself. Scientific discovery, enabled by computational modeling, has allowed us to gain a better understanding of the conditions present at the very birth of the universe as well as to better understand the birth and death of stars and the ultimate fate of the universe itself. As a field of research, astrophysics seeks to apply the laws of physics, which can act over an extremely wide range of distance and timescales, to explain phenomena in the universe.
