💫 One for the space lovers!
Researchers have created what they describe as the “largest and most accurate computer simulation to date” of our section of the universe.
This means that the familiar structures within our local universe, such as the Virgo, Coma and Perseus clusters of galaxies, the Great Wall, have been reproduced in the simulation. During their research, the scientists found that our local patch of the universe may be unusual as the simulation predicted a lower number of galaxies than found in an average region of the universe due to a local large-scale underdensity of dark matter.
The researchers consisted of people across the world, including from Durham University, and were led by the University of Helsinki.The findings have been published on arXiv.org and as a pre-print in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society journal. “The fact that we have been able to reproduce these familiar structures provides impressive support for the standard Cold Dark Matter model and tells us that we are on the right track to understand the evolution of the entire universe.”
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