Science News | Watch a simulation of shock waves in the cosmic web | Science News @ScienceNewsMag | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
In this computer simulation, gas falling onto the cosmic web (blue) heats and expands, setting off shockwaves that ripple through the hot, expanded gas (red) and throughout the vast network of galaxy clusters and filaments that fills our universe. These shockwaves interact with magnetic fields (green) in the cosmic web to create radio signals that astronomers can observe.
Read more: sciencenews.org/article/shock-waves-shaking-universe-first
Video: Vazza F/ENZO, Piz-Daint CSCS (Lugano)