Secrets of the Dark Universe: Simulating the Sky on the Blue Gene/Q

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OSTI ID:1082436

An astonishing 99.6% of our Universe is dark. Observations indicate that the Universe consists of 70% of a mysterious dark energy and 25% of a yet unidentified dark matter component, and only 0.4% of the remaining ordinary matter is visible. Understanding the physics of this dark sector is the foremost challenge in cosmology today. Sophisticated simulations of the evolution of the Universe play a crucial task in this endeavor. Credits: Science: Hal Finkel, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann, Kalyan Kumaran, Vitali Morozov, Tom Peterka, Adrian Pope, Tim Williams, David Daniel, Patricia Fasel, Nicholas Frontiere and Zarija Lukic Visualization: Mark Herald, Joseph A. Insley, Aaron Knoll, Michael E. Papka, Venkatram Vishwanath and Eric C. Olson

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC0206CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1082436
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
ANL
DARK MATTER
DARK SECTOR
COSMIC WEB
UNIVERSE
COMPUTER SIMULATION
BLUE GENE/Q
HACC