The large-scale structure of the Universe
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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.
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Background
- Authors
- Springel, V., Frenk, C. S., & White, S. D. M.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Durham University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Springel, Volker
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 440
- Issue
- 7088
- Pages
- 1137-1144
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2057015950
- Cited by
- 780
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 20.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Keywords
- large-scale structure, structure formation, primordial density fluctuations, dark matter halos, galaxy formation, gravitational instability, N-body simulations, cosmic microwave background, Big Bang
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