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Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have built a groundbreaking computer program that essentially simulates a cosmic time machine, capable of showing viewers the\u00a0universe<\/a> during its first 2 billion years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lumina <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The program, dubbed Lumina, allows researchers to take a peak at the early universe with pristine imagery.<\/p>\n Lumina is about 100 times bigger and 30 times sharper than older models and showcases how the first stars and galaxies lit up the universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they\u2019re saying:\u00a0 Supercomputers power Lumina <\/p>\n Scientists used Frontier, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, linking together more than 100,000 computer processors and 15,000 graphics chips to run the simulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n This supercomputer tracked half a trillion tiny pieces of gas, dark matter, and light, letting researchers zoom out to see huge chunks of space or zoom in on a single growing galaxy.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The team has shared Lumina with astronomers all around the world so they can study it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, researchers can match the computer’s predictions with real pictures taken by modern space telescopes.\u00a0<\/p>\n By comparing the two, scientists hope to solve some of the biggest remaining mysteries about how our universe was born.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this article was taken from an MIT news release. This story was reported from San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n Air and Space<\/a>Technology<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Caption:A composite image of Lumina\u2019s scales of simulation, depicting (from left to right) the streaming velocities of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31408,111,43,139,69,147,145],"class_list":["post-643443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-air-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Lumina does everything from small-scale star and galaxy formation to large-scale re-ionization of hydrogen and helium, in a volume that is 100 times larger than previous best simulations,” study author Mark Vogelsberger, a professor of physics at MIT,\u00a0said in a news release.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n