100 Galaxy Simulation

This movie is one of my older movies and shows the evolution of a cluster of 100 galaxies. The white particles are the luminous cores of the galaxies, and the red particles are the dark matter halos of the galaxies. The duration of the simulation covers 16 gigayears (billion years). The field of view is roughly a megaparsec (3.26 million lightyears). Due to dynamical friction and galactic interactions, the largest galaxies fall to the center of the cluster to form a dominant central galaxy through merging. The cluster-wide dark matter is not shown in this animation.

This movie along with other simulations can be found at http://rberring.iweb.bsu.edu/animations.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• N-body
• galaxy
• cluster
• evolution

[rberring]

I am glad you enjoyed the video. If you liked this one, there is a good chance that you will enjoy the other videos I have posted on my channel.

[zzzsomeonezzz]

Hey rbrring!

Is the program(s) you use in this video, available as for download or buy?

Thank you

[rberring]

All the programs used to simulate and visualize the video are all freely available.

[flanflinflan]

wtf?

[rberring]

Can you be more specific? For initial questions/comments, I direct you to the description about the video. If you still have further questions, feel free to ask.

[xshoreLS1]

oh crap we're screwed

[Vangali]

Wow this is incredible! Amazing Video!

[zzzsomeonezzz]

Great. I was a bit too fast to reply before i read the info i see. Sorry. I've downloade the program and it works just fine. Thank you very much for this add :)