The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such cosmic ...

A projection through a 130 million light years thick slice through a simulation of a cubic volume of 9,132 million light years on a side. The luminosity of the background image gives the cold dark ...

Cosmologists have spent decades trying to pin down exactly how fast the universe is flying apart and whether that rate is ...

Evolution of the most massive galaxy cluster in the high-resolution simulation. The main frame shows the gas density (brightness) and temperature (hue), with white indicating the hottest and densest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When scientists push the limits of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning ...

Scientific research is normally about chemistry but this time its history. Researchers are using epic computing powers to develop a simulation of the ancient universe. Some 13 billion years of ...

In a mesmerizing display of scientific artistry, NASA has unleashed a stunning simulation that takes viewers on an awe-inspiring journey through the history of the universe. While the universe's ...

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 ...

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

Since the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein were first detected in 2015, astrophysicists have been pondering the gravitational wave background—the cumulative undulations of these spacetime ...

Picture the universe: More than 20 billion particles of dark matter, stars, galaxies, supermassive blackholes, gas and magnetic fields, all interacting together over the course of 13.8 billion years ...

Astronomers have carried out the biggest ever computer simulations from the Big Bang to the present day to investigate how the Universe evolved. The FLAMINGO simulations calculate the evolution of all ...