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The reason to recreate thousands of galaxies

The reason to recreate thousands of galaxies

For all its brilliant complexity, the Milky Way is rather unremarkable as galaxies go. At least, that’s how Mark Vogelsberger sees it.

“Our galaxy has a couple features that might be a bit surprising, like the exact number of structures and satellites around it,” Vogelsberger muses. “But if you average over a lot of metrics, the Milky Way is actually a rather normal place.”

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Source: “Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxy formation for clues to the universe“, MIT News Office

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