This movie shows the formation of one of the Aquarius halos we simulated, over nearly the full age of the Universe from redshift z~50 to z=0. The camera position moves slowly around the forming galactic halo, pointing towards its centre at all times. The movie is based on our Aq-A-2 simulation. See: Aquarius Project Visualizations

See Also:

• Shut up and simulate. (In which I try to understand how dark matter forms galaxies, and end up very confused.) by Sabine of Backreaction