The notion that our universe might be a giant simulation has intrigued scientists and philosophers for decades. Recent ...

HITS In a simulation that’s running now, Wadsley is generating a bigger volume of mock universe to test whether the relation holds for the full range of galaxy types in McGaugh’s sample.

The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

The Bolshoi Simulation allows researchers to study how dark matter clumps together to form the large-scale structures we see in the universe today, such as galaxies and galaxy clusters.

VIRTUAL UNIVERSE In a snapshot from the Illustris computer simulation of the universe, galaxies (pink) cluster along filaments of dark matter (blue). Shown is the most massive cluster in the ...

A new simulation of the evolution of the universe is one of the most accurate ever created. The model, developed by a team of scientists led by Mark Vogelsberger at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

A team of astronomers have developed a computer simulation called "Illustris," which took five years to program and, for the first time, can recreate the evolution of the Universe in high fidelity.

By strengthening the galactic winds in a computer simulation of the entire history of the universe, astronomers may have a more accurate model with which to study galaxies and their evolution.

The fundamental parameters of the Universe might be universally constant. But they might also be 'constants' set by a simulation... or a simulator.