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English: Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned to slime mold, a single-cell organism found on Earth, to help them build a map of the filaments in the local universe (within 500 million light-years from Earth) and find the gas within them. The researchers designed a computer algorithm inspired by the organism's behavior and applied it to data containing the positions of 37,000 galaxies ("food" for the slime mold) mapped by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The algorithm produced a three-dimensional map of the underlying cosmic web's intricate filamentary network, the purple structure in the image. The three sets of inset boxes show some of those individual galaxies that were "fed" to the slime mold and the filamentary structure connecting them. The galaxies are represented by the yellow dots in three of the inset images. Next to each galaxy snapshot is an image of the galaxies with the cosmic web's connecting strands (purple) superimposed on them.
Русский: Модель космической сети ближней Вселенной (500 млн световых лет от Земли), полученная группой учёных из Калифорнийского университета в Санта-Крус. Процесс формирования галактических нитей моделировался с помощью алгоритма поведения одноклеточных организмов - слизевиков - на основании расположения 37 000 галактик, полученного из Слоановского цифрового небесного обзора. Пустоты между нитями заполнены межгалактическим газом, что подтверждается анализом леса Лайман-альфа. На врезках показаны жёлтыми точками положения галактик (отдельно на левой половине каждой из 3 вставок), а сиреневым цветом - наложенные на них смоделированные изображения соединяющих их нитей (правая половина). |
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Source | https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/slime-mold-simulations-used-to-map-dark-matter-holding-universe-together |
Author | NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) |
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Map of the Cosmic Web Generated from Slime Mould Algorithm
Результаты моделирования эволюции структуры космической сети с помощью алгоритма поведения слизевиков
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Author | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach |
Source | ESA/Hubble |
Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) |
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Date and time of data generation | 18:00, 10 March 2020 |
JPEG file comment | Astronomers have designed a computer algorithm, inspired by slime mould behavior, and tested it against a computer simulation of the growth of dark matter filaments in the Universe. The researchers then applied the slime mould algorithm to data containing the locations of over 37 000 galaxies mapped by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The algorithm produced a three-dimensional map of the underlying cosmic web structure. They then analysed the light from 350 faraway quasars catalogued in the Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive. These distant cosmic flashlights are the brilliant black-hole-powered cores of active galaxies, whose light shines across space and through the foreground cosmic web. |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 21.0 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 16:06, 18 February 2020 |
Date and time of digitizing | 09:01, 4 February 2020 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:16, 18 February 2020 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:191374e2-43c9-4fbd-adc7-704a8b95f12b |
Keywords | Dark Matter object |
Contact information | outreach@stsci.edu
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