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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Simulation Reveals Secrets of the Origin of the Universe
As part of the "Horizon Project," a team of French scientists, led by Romain Teyssier, an Astrophysicist at CEA (the French Atomic Energy Commission), has completed the largest simulation ever carried out of structure formation in the universe. This simulation will enable astrophysicists to compare their models with astronomical observations with an unprecedented level of realism. The aim of the project is to get a better understanding of the moment when the universe started to form structures under the influence of gravity: how small primordial density fluctuations grow by gravitational instability and finally form galaxies and galaxy clusters we observe today.
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