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New COLIBRE simulations show how cold gas and dust help galaxies evolve from the early universe to today. (CREDIT: Monthly ...

A Chinese-led international team has released the largest-ever cosmological simulation, named "HyperMillennium," offering ...

Scientists have used a synthetic universe to observe how the first galaxies evolved and grew.

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Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn’t the real one, maybe it’s more like a big video game, or the movie ...

An international team of researchers has produced the most accurate simulation of the universe to date, using supercomputers to model the entire history of the universe from the Big Bang to the ...

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A simulation created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the most detailed model of the early universe to date. Thesan, named after the Etruscan goddess of the dawn, shows ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into mainstream culture and serious philosophy. Now a new wave of theoretical work ...