Lumiere Videos

A picure from the Lumiere Videos

Durham's 2016 Lumiere festival featured a projection of the EAGLE simulation onto the city's historic cathedral.

You can have a look at the overall result on Vimeo produced by Ross Ashton here.

The individual movies (that are still very spectacular) are embedded below for viewing also.

Dark Matter Video

This video shows the evolution of the dark matter in the EAGLE simulation.

Gas Video

This video shows the evolution of the gas in the EAGLE simulation and shows the effects of the hydrodynamics.

Highlights

Small Cluster

A small, interracting 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

Two galaxies sharing gas

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

A picture of a galaxy like our own

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 ...