The notion that our universe might be a giant simulation has intrigued scientists and philosophers for decades. Recent ...

HITS In a simulation that’s running now, Wadsley is generating a bigger volume of mock universe to test whether the relation holds for the full range of galaxy types in McGaugh’s sample.

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

VIRTUAL UNIVERSE In a snapshot from the Illustris computer simulation of the universe, galaxies (pink) cluster along filaments of dark matter (blue). Shown is the most massive cluster in the ...

The Bolshoi Simulation allows researchers to study how dark matter clumps together to form the large-scale structures we see in the universe today, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Is the universe just an enormous, fantastically complex simulation? These were the big questions that a group of scientists, as well as one philosopher, tackled on April 5 during the 17th annual ...

A new simulation of the evolution of the universe is one of the most accurate ever created. The model, developed by a team of scientists led by Mark Vogelsberger at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

A team of astronomers have developed a computer simulation called "Illustris," which took five years to program and, for the first time, can recreate the evolution of the Universe in high fidelity.

By strengthening the galactic winds in a computer simulation of the entire history of the universe, astronomers may have a more accurate model with which to study galaxies and their evolution.