Scientist created First realistic virtual universe called ILLUSTRIS Scientists created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer simulation called Illustris. Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics create it. Illustris tracked the development of the universe from 12 million years after the Big Bang up to the present, and identified more than 41,000 galaxies in a simulated space 350 million light years on each side. The computer simulation enabled researchers to understand how galaxies, black holes and other cosmic phenomena evolved. It followed the complex development of normal and dark matter over 13 billion years, matching features observed in the real universe. Over the past two decades, researchers have been attempting to build accurate computer simulations of the development of the universe using computer programmes. The actual calculations took 3 months of run time. If the astronomers had used an average desktop computer, the calculations would have taken more than 2,000 years to complete.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:39:23 +0000
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