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Astrophysicists at the University of Washington have used a supercomputer to create the first image of the mysterious dark energy that makes up three quarters of the mass of the universe. Strangely, the picture evokes an image of brain tissue with bright dots of galaxies illuminating the centers of neuron-like tangles of visible matter. Dark energy roils in the voids between the filaments. The image shows a segment of the universe 2.8 billion light years wide, 2.6 billion light tall, and 290 million light years thick.
The picture stemmed from data gathered by astrophysicists Andrea V. Maccio, Fabio Governato and Cathy Horellou. Their paper on dark energy flow in our cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and a number of other smaller galaxies, was just submitted to the to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.