Supercomputers can create millions of virtual universes

Researchers from the University of Arizona with their supercomputers can create millions of mini universes for research. It can provide many answers about the evolution of galaxies.

The University of Arizona Ocelote supercomputer is seen as a tool that can create millions of mini universes to see how they fit into the real universe.

Scientists have sought to create millions of virtual universes to serve research.

Instead of trying to describe all the nuances of the entire universe (even a fully modeled galaxy would require too much computing power), the team devised a system with sufficient power. to expand from supernova into a "big block" of observed space.

Each virtual universe has a different set of rules and essentially see which simulations line up closest to the actual data. The 'production' of about 8 million simulated universes only takes about three weeks.

The approach not only helps to understand how galaxies evolve, but also challenges existing theories. To begin with, galaxies can produce stars significantly longer than previously thought.

Star formation should have ended long under existing models and dark matter may not be too hostile to that formation in the early universe.

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