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Durham University

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Caption

A projection through a 130 million light years thick slice through a simulation of a cubic volume of 9,132 million light years on a side. The luminosity of the background image gives the cold dark matter surface density whilst the colour encodes the surface density of massive neutrinos. The filamentary cosmic web of large-scale structure is clearly visible. The fact that the colour changes more smoothly than the luminosity indicates that neutrinos cluster on larger length scales than cold dark matter.

Credit

Image credit Josh Borrow, the FLAMINGO team and the Virgo Consortium.

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