Durham’s cosmology research lights up London

Research by Durham University scientists into the evolution of galaxies will light up London as part of a major festival. Cosmoscope will be one of the artworks at Lumiere London which will see over 50 installations illuminate the captial's streets from 18 to 21 January. The installation made its debut at Lumiere Durham 2017 , when it was based in the City's Crown Court Gardens. Visitors to the London festival will be able to view Cosmoscope on Store Street, in Fitzrovia. Inspired in part by the work of the EAGLE (Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments) project, Cosmoscope explores the patterns, structures and similarities between the Universe, the human body and atoms and molecules. Realistic simulations of the Universe EAGLE, primarily a collaboration between Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) and Leiden University in The Netherlands, is a huge supercomputer simulation aimed at understanding how galaxies form and evolve. A project of the Virgo Consortium for cosmological supercomputer simulations, EAGLE has produced some of the most realistic simulations of the Universe ever seen.