The Formation of a Milky Way like Galaxy

This simulations follows the formation of a galaxy like our own. It assumes a Cold Dark Matter Universe. The movie shows the distribution of gas and stars from after the Big bang to the present time. Every second corresponds to 70 million years and the frame is 500.000 light years across.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• galaxies
• astrophysics
• UW
• simulations
• supercomputers
• cosmology
• stars

[LurkSAR]

@ANGELO13111

My opinion is they can be created in both times.

[ANGELO13111]

Fuck this iPhone keyboard. It makes me type like a retard without even knowing it

[ANGELO13111]

Can someone help me out here? Do stars form after a galaxy is created iir while it's being formed? I'm nit talking about the milky way I'm talking about all galaxies in general like the smaller ones bein combined with larger ones.

[MrSupercat9]

Nice. I remember when this happened. It was really neat.

[Ear4Beauty]

That's pretty neat. You may have it right. What a fast forward. Thanks for you labors.

[Acrimonator]

Wonderfull, i'm in total awe... O_°

[malmsteen4321]

@eddyvlad Except that it would take 38 hours to watch that video : \

[mogtahid]

Bonjours, à tous !

Bonne année 2010 avec prospérité civilisatrice.

Certes, tout tourne de la droit vers la gauche et où toute chose à son apogée et son déclin.

Pour ainsi dire nous allons vers 1 terminus.

[dairyeng]

It's hard to tell 2D vs 3D shapes, but at about 1:15, there appears to be a "polar ring" structure similar to that in your other video. Does the 3D model actually contain such a shape? If so, might that imply that observed polar ring galaxies are merely a short-lived building phase? Or does your model show they can be stable?