The largest virtual universe ever simulated

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Researchers from the University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire universe with a large supercomputer. A gigantic catalog of about 25 billion virtual galaxies has been generated from 2 trillion digital particles. This catalog is being used to calibrate the experiments on board the Euclid satellite, that will be launched in 2020 […]

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June 9, 2017 at 12:35AM