Some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way are immigrants from other galaxies, survivors of cataclysmic collisions that tore apart smaller systems about 5 billion years ago.
Scientists developed a sophisticated new computer simulation that recreated the Milky Way's origin and evolution stemming back as far as time began, at least in our universe, with the Big Bang explosion roughly 13 billion years ago.
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