Cosmological Structure Formation
This is a snapshot of a supercomputer simulation of cosmological structure formation. The simulation contains a region of space 40 million light-years on a side at 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Each step in brightness represents a factor of 10 change in density, with the brightest regions being the location of galaxy clusters. The simulation closely matches observational data, for which it is more difficult to take a visually appealing image.
Credit: Aaron Day and ENZO collaboration
Cosmological Structure Formation
This is a snapshot of a supercomputer simulation of cosmological structure formation. The simulation contains a region of space 40 million light-years on a side at 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Each step in brightness represents a factor of 10 change in density, with the brightest regions being the location of galaxy clusters. The simulation closely matches observational data, for which it is more difficult to take a visually appealing image.
Credit: Aaron Day and ENZO collaboration