Project StarGate @ SC09 (Universe Visualization)

This simulation follows the growth of density perturbations in both gas and dark matter components in a volume 1 billion light years on a side beginning shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to half the present age of the universe. It calculates the gravitational clumping of intergalactic gas and dark matter modeled using a computational grid of 64 billion cells and 64 billion dark matter particles. The simulation uses a computational grid of 4096^3 cells and took over 4,000,000 CPU hours to complete.

credit: San Diego Supercomputer Center, Argonne National Laboratory

source: http://press.mcs.anl.gov/futureslab/2009/11/19/project-stargate-sc09/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• universe
• dark matter
• galaxies
• big bang
• cosmology

[spryguy]

this needs to be 1080p

The fact that kids are growing up these days knowing what the universe looks like from the outside in is just so damn mindblowing when you think about it.

I grew up thinking about how amazing and big Star Wars was, but that was just one damn galaxy. A DOT in this thing.