Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

Previous simulations of the growth of cosmic structures have broadly reproduced the 'cosmic web' of galaxies that we see in the Universe, but failed to create a mixed population of elliptical and spiral galaxies, because of numerical inaccuracies and incomplete physical models. Moreover, t...

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Main Authors: Genel, S. (Author), Springel, V. (Author), Torrey, P. (Author), Sijacki, D. (Author), Xu, D. (Author), Snyder, G. (Author), Bird, S. (Author), Nelson, Dylan (Author), Hernquist, L. (Author), Vogelsberger, Mark (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2014-08-07T14:18:00Z.
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