Millennium Simulation

This movie shows the dark matter distribution in the universe at the present time, based on the Millennium Simulation, the largest N-body simulation carried out thus far (more than 10^10 particles). By zooming in on a massive cluster of galaxies, the movie highlights the morphology of the structure on different scales, and the large dynamic range of the simulation (10^5 per dimension in 3D). The zoom extends from scales of several Gpc down to resolved substructures as small as ~10 kpc.

Credit: Springel et al. (Virgo Consortium)
Simulation code: Gadget-2

http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/data_vis/index.shtml

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• dark matter
• astrophysics
• science