... milky way . ... Decoding Milky Way dark matter . A supercomputer simulates the formation and evolution of the Milky Way's dark-matter halo. ... Projected dark matter density-square map of the simulated Milky Way-size halo Via Lactea at the various epochs. ... R esearchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA's most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelops the Milky Way galaxy. ...