Highlights

The EAGLE volume is large enough to study how galaxies are distributed in the Universe. Observationally, galaxies are arranged along filamentary patterns, with denser concentrations of galaxies called groups (the Milky Way galaxy is part of the Local Group) and galaxy clusters, at the intersection of filaments. In EAGLE, this pattern develops because galaxies trace the filamentary pattern displayed by the dark matter. Excitingly, the simulation also allows a study of the internal properties of individual galaxies, although not yet at the exquisite detail in which Andromeda has been studied!

This page allows you to explore how galaxies formed in EAGLE using images and movies, and also how the filamentary pattern along which galaxies are arranged came to be.

Time Evolution in EAGLE

Below are several different views on the EAGLE simulation, showing different 'cuts' under time-evolution.

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AGN Feedback

The EAGLE simulation includes AGN feedback from the supermassive black holes in the center of the simulated galaxies. This feedback turns out to be incredibly important in the format...

Lumiere Videos

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Small Cluster

Often galaxies huddle together in a small group or “cluster”, gravitationally bound by their dark matter halo. The Milky Way and Androm...

Large Interacting Galaxies

Image of a spiral galaxy in EAGLE, showing how some of its gas seems to be pulled out of the disc. This happens often when another galaxy comes close, and is due to the ...

Milky Way Analogue

Of course we don’t have a pretty picture of the Milky Way taken taken from outside the galaxy, but it looks probably very similar to ...

Group Collision

Clusters of galaxies (collections of 100s to 1000s of galaxies orbiting within a single dark matter structure such as for example Coma), sometimes collide with another cluste...

Merging Galaxies

Sometimes galaxies collide with each other, with the Antennae galaxies a particularly spectacular example. In this examp...

Massive Cluster of Galaxies

Clusters of galaxies are concentrations of 100s to 1000s of galaxies, gravitational bound inside a dark matter halo. So much mass is contained within them, that th...