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Okay UK government I’m with you on this one.
In case you’re wondering, it looks like the image is a modified snapshot from a simulation of how galaxies form in clusters and tendrils of #DarkMatter in the Cosmic Web. More on how these simulations work: icc.dur.ac.uk/Eagle/
In case you’re wondering, it looks like the image is a modified snapshot from a simulation of how galaxies form in clusters and tendrils of #DarkMatter in the Cosmic Web. More on how these simulations work: icc.dur.ac.uk/Eagle/
How cosmic simulations are done:
1) Write code to simulate mass & gravity for little bits of dark matter
2) Set up their distribution based on tiny fluctuations we see in THE LITERAL AFTERGLOW OF THE BIG BANG
3) Let code run for a while & it looks like what we see in the sky 🌌
1) Write code to simulate mass & gravity for little bits of dark matter
2) Set up their distribution based on tiny fluctuations we see in THE LITERAL AFTERGLOW OF THE BIG BANG
3) Let code run for a while & it looks like what we see in the sky 🌌
To emphasize how cool this is: we are starting with tiny tiny variations in microwave light that comes to us from when the cosmos was still basically ON FIRE from the Big Bang and we use some math and out comes THE DISTRIBUTION OF ACTUAL GALAXIES IN SPACE 🤯
