{"id":94747,"date":"2019-08-13T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-tasked-a-supercomputer-with-building-millions-of-simulated-universes"},"modified":"2019-08-13T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:02:26","slug":"scientists-tasked-a-supercomputer-with-building-millions-of-simulated-universes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-tasked-a-supercomputer-with-building-millions-of-simulated-universes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists tasked a supercomputer with building millions of simulated universes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-tasked-a-supercomputer-with-building-millions-of-simulated-universes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figuring out how our reality took shape over billions of years is no easy task for scientists. Theories about how the Big Bang played out and the immediate aftermath are a dime a dozen, but researchers led by <a href=\"https:\/\/uanews.arizona.edu\/story\/virtual-universe-machine-sheds-light-galaxy-evolution\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a team from the University of Arizona<\/a> think they might stumble upon some of the secrets of galaxy formation by asking a supercomputer to simulate millions of virtual universes and seeing which ones come closest to what we see today.<\/p>\n<p>In a new research paper published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/488\/3\/3143\/5484868\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/a><\/em>, the team explains how they used a supercomputer system nicknamed the \u201cUniverse Machine\u201d to watch billions of (virtual) years of galaxy formation play out before their eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figuring out how our reality took shape over billions of years is no easy task for scientists. Theories about how the Big Bang played out and the immediate aftermath are a dime a dozen, but researchers led by a team from the University of Arizona think they might stumble upon some of the secrets of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94747","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}