What would dark matter look like if we could see it? A team led by astrophysicist Piero Madau of the University of California–Santa Cruz (UCSC) has taken a substantial step toward answering this question. Using the power of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Jaguar supercomputer, Madau’s team has run the largest simulation ever of dark matter evolving over billions of years to envelop a galaxy such as our own Milky Way.
Invisible Means of Support
August 8, 2008