The large-scale structure of the Universe

Volker Springel (), Carlos S. Frenk and Simon D. M. White
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Volker Springel: Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1
Carlos S. Frenk: Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham
Simon D. M. White: Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7088, 1137-1144

Abstract: Abstract Research over the past 25 years has led to the view that the rich tapestry of present-day cosmic structure arose during the first instants of creation, where weak ripples were imposed on the otherwise uniform and rapidly expanding primordial soup. Over 14 billion years of evolution, these ripples have been amplified to enormous proportions by gravitational forces, producing ever-growing concentrations of dark matter in which ordinary gases cool, condense and fragment to make galaxies. This process can be faithfully mimicked in large computer simulations, and tested by observations that probe the history of the Universe starting from just 400,000 years after the Big Bang.

Date: 2006
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