The most realistic model of our universe reveals intricate web-like pattern connecting each and every galaxy, not unlike the web of interconnecting neurons inside our brain or cells in our body.

That which is above is like that which is below and that which is below is like that which is above, to achieve the wonders of the one thing.
The Emerald Tablet

The Virgo consortium, an international group of astrophysicists from the UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and the USA. had released first results from the largest and most realistic simulation ever of the growth of cosmic structure and the formation of galaxies and quasars. In a paper published in Nature, the Virgo Consortium shows how comparing such simulated data to large observational surveys can reveal the physical processes underlying the build-up of real galaxies and black holes.

Notes: Each small bright dot represent not a star but an entire galaxy. A parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. The length of the parsec is based on the method of trigonometric parallax, one of the oldest methods for measuring the distances to stars. The name parsec stands for "parallax of one second of arc", and one parsec is defined to be the distance from the Earth to a star that has a parallax of 1 arcsecond. The actual length of a parsec is approximately 3.262 light-years. 

The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical paradigm for the formation of structure in the Universe. Together with the theory of cosmic inflation, this model makes a clear prediction for the initial conditions for structure formation and predicts that structures grow hierarchically through gravitational instability. Testing this model requires that the precise measurements delivered by galaxy surveys can be compared to robust and equally precise theoretical calculations. This combines the largest simulation of the growth of dark matter structure ever carried out with new techniques for following the formation and evolution of the visible components. 

More Information at: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium

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