Simulation Movie of Cosmic Reionization (VIDEO)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Caption

The ionizing sources are located in the center of the simulation box and the ionized region (shown in yellow) expands as time passes (5 million years from the start to the end of the simulation). The size of the simulation box is 50 thousand light-years.

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S. Chon (University of Tokyo)

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