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A virtual Universe

A numerical simulation of cosmic structure formation reproduces both large- and smaller-scale features of a representative volume of the Universe from early in its history to the present day. See Article p.177

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Figure 1: The multi-scale nature of galaxy formation.

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Boylan-Kolchin, M. A virtual Universe. Nature 509, 170–171 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/509170a

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