{"id":168210,"date":"2023-07-24T04:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/an-enormous-cosmological-simulation-wraps-up-recreating-even-more-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:24:26","slug":"an-enormous-cosmological-simulation-wraps-up-recreating-even-more-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/an-enormous-cosmological-simulation-wraps-up-recreating-even-more-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"An Enormous Cosmological Simulation Wraps Up, Recreating Even More of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-enormous-cosmological-simulation-wraps-up-recreating-even-more-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an old joke among astronomy students about a question on the final exam for a cosmology class. It goes like this: \u201cDescribe the Universe and give three examples.\u201d Well, a team of researchers in Germany, the U.S., and the UK took a giant leap toward giving at least one accurate example of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>To do it, they used a set of simulations called \u201cMillenniumTNG\u201d. It traces the buildup of galaxies and cosmic structure across time. It also provides new insight into the standard cosmological model of the Universe. It\u2019s the latest in cosmological simulations, joining such ambitious efforts as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/153192\/a-new-simulation-of-the-universe-contains-60-trillion-particles-the-most-ever\/\">AbacusSummit project<\/a> of a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This simulation project takes into account as many aspects of cosmic evolution as possible. It uses simulations of regular (baryonic) matter (which is what we see in the Universe). It also includes dark matter, neutrinos, and the still-mysterious dark energy on the formation mechanisms of the Universe. That\u2019s a tall order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an old joke among astronomy students about a question on the final exam for a cosmology class. It goes like this: \u201cDescribe the Universe and give three examples.\u201d Well, a team of researchers in Germany, the U.S., and the UK took a giant leap toward giving at least one accurate example of the Universe. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}