For the past several years, a team of University of California astrophysicists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been using a cluster of roughly 300 computer processors to model some of ...

An international collaboration of astronomers has created the most detailed simulation yet of the early stages of the universe. The simulation can be seen in the video below, showing the first light ...

Researchers have created what they say is the largest computer simulation of the universe, and have made the data available for anyone to download for free. “Uchuu is like a time machine: we can go ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into ...

When scientists push the limits of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning of what's possible. In early November, the Department of Energy's ...

The story opens with a scene both familiar and deceptively simple: physicists once again interrogating the fabric of reality, only this time emerging with a claim bold enough to quiet decades of ...

It's a map and time machine rolled into one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new simulation of the universe is a map and a time ...

The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed—something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years—has now been solved by a team of astrophysicists whose findings are published in ...