Cosmic Web (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Cosmic Web

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This reconstruction of the cosmic web using 37,662 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) was generated by the Monte Carlo Physarum Machine, an algorithm based on the growth patterns of a slime mold. Top: Large-scale visualization of the emergent structure identified by the slime mold algorithm. This intricate filamentary network is reconstructed given only the SDSS galaxy coordinates, redshifts, and masses. Bottom: Three individual regions showing the underlying SDSS galaxies on the left and the superimposed filament density field on the right.

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Burchett et al., ApJL, 2020

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