Naoki Yoshida (Department of Physics, Nagoya University) Kazuyuki Omukai (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) and Lars Hernquist ((Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) have developed an ab initio computer simulation of the formation of primordial stars that follows the relevant atomic and molecular processes in a primordial gas in an expanding universe.
Learn more about this huge effort (8 years to date - running on 70 linked computer processors) @ http://www.a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~nyoshida/protostar.html
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