Simulation of the first galaxies in the Universe. (IMAGE)

University of Bath

Simulation of the first galaxies in the Universe.

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The purple cosmic web of gas feeds intense star formation in the first galaxies. As stars live and die, they produce oxygen (yellow) and photons (white), all self-consistently evolved and tracked together by the new Megatron simulations.  

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Harley B. Katz, Martin P. Rey

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