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Enemies, which the team refers to as “puppets,” are writhing, globular beings with more than a flicker of human presence, partly inspired by live footage of medical surgeries and various works involving Hannibal Lecter.

Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of the University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even millions of tightly packed stars.

Globular star clusters form in turmoil.

The repeated stellar collisions in the dense, central region of globular clusters are called runaway collisions.

"We, for the first time, successfully performed numerical simulations of globular cluster formation, modeling individual stars. By resolving individual stars with a realistic mass for each, we could reconstruct the collisions of stars in a tightly packed environment. For these simulations, we have developed a novel simulation code, in which we could integrate millions of stars with high accuracy."