Watch 13 BILLION years of cosmic evolution. First ever realistic simulation of the universe's history created
Illustris was developed over 5 years by a team led by Mark Vogelsberger of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The numerical-based model covers the evolution of the universe beginning just 12 million years after the Big Bang
It recreates galaxy clusters, bubbles and voids of the cosmic web. On the small scale, it can recreate galaxies
The calculations took 3 months of ‘run time,’ using a total of 8,000 computer processing units running in parallel
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2622616/Virtual-world-tops-cosmic-charts-scale-rigor.html
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