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Title:
The large-scale structure of the Universe
Authors:
Springel, Volker; Frenk, Carlos S.; White, Simon D. M.
Affiliation:
AA(), AB(Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.), AC(Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1, 85740 Garching, Germany.)
Publication:
Nature, Volume 440, Issue 7088, pp. 1137-1144 (2006). (Nature Homepage)
Publication Date:
04/2006
Origin:
NATURE
DOI:
10.1038/nature04805
Bibliographic Code:
2006Natur.440.1137S

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.
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