: The authors used a supercomputer and a strategy called "Clean Numerical Simulation" to overcome the "butterfly effect" (rounding errors) in calculations.

: These orbits are often called "choreo-graphs" because the three masses follow each other along the same path, looking like a synchronized dance.

: The data originates from the landmark paper "Three-body problem - from Newton to supercomputer plus machine learning" by physicists XiaoMing Li and ShiJun Liao (2017).

: The "z" prefix typically refers to the collisionless nature of these orbits, while "12" identifies this specific complex, figure-eight-like pattern. ⚛️ Why This Matters