franco_vazza, 6 months ago

#SimulatedUniverses
Fresh new visualisation (using #JuliaLang + SAO Ds9) of the evolution of a new massive cluster of galaxies, from z=30 to z=0, simulated with ENZO-MHD (+"my" cosmic rays). The mass is huge (~2e15Msol) and these clusters can only form in very large cosmic volumes, so the whole procedure requires to use aggressive adaptive mesh refinement to cover all necessary range of scales (the size of this "zoom" box is 25Mpc and the max resolution is 15kpc).

#astronomy #astrodon

movie showing the evolution of projected gas density in a crowded environment, leading to the birth of a massive cluster of galaxies with several filaments