Created the largest simulation of the Universe

Scientists from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) has created the largest simulation of the origin and development of the Universe.

The scale of the virtual Universe

The simulation includes the 25 billion galaxies and created for a better understanding of dark matter, dark energy and the process of formation of large scale cosmic structures. To create the simulation used the supercomputer Piz Daint from the Swiss National computing centre. To generate the virtual Universe took 80 hours. Simulation will be used to optimize the operation of the Euclid satellite, which will observe wide areas of the sky containing millions of galaxies. Euclid himself will start to work in 2020. Through his work, the scientists plan to learn more about the nature of dark matter and to obtain an updated version of the General theory of relativity or the theory of elementary particles.

Source: Phys