| 15th of April 2015 |
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| Simulated dwarf galaxy |
| by Alan Duffy (Swinburne University of Technology) |
| A simulated dwarf galaxy forming when the
Universe was half its current age. The Dark Matter is in red, the stars in
yellow and the gas in blue. Galaxy formation occurs along Dark Matter
filaments, and is a violent process of merging of gas clouds, spawning stars
deep within their sheltered cores. This simulation was run on the iVEC's
EPIC supercomputer with thanks to ASTAC for time allocation. Credits: Paul Bourke (University of Western Australia), Rob Crain (Liverpool John Moores University), and Alan Duffy (Swinburne University of Technology) |