Unveiling the Origins: Largest-Ever Universe Simulation Holds the Answers

Astronomers are conducting the largest-ever computer simulations of the universe using the FLAMINGO project, aiming to understand how the universe evolved from its beginnings billions of years ago. These simulations include normal matter, dark matter, and dark energy, and have 300 billion particles in a cubic volume of space with edges of 10 billion light-years. The initial results have not resolved the tension between the observed clumping of the universe and the cold dark matter model, but the researchers have found that including normal matter is crucial for accurate predictions. The FLAMINGO data, which is several petabytes in size, has not been made available to the public yet.