Eshan Maitra

A team of great minds in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA has put up a brilliant projects to simulate the Universe. It is kind of like a virtual google map with the 3D street view feature with resolution of 12 billion pixels, that observes the whole the universe rather than just earth. This is the most creative, safe and budget efficient project to understand the beginning of the Universe. It is somewhat unimaginable.
An Astrophysics team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre has assembled a massive computer consists of 8000 CPUs. Firstly, they had to build the system and the functions. They had to embed all the physical laws into the computer language. Also all equations and nature of the astronomical subjects to allow it to evolve in the same our universe has. It took the team months, just to stand the figure of the model. The model grew and grew from the big bang. After it virtually transformed over13 billion years of its course, the phenomenon were ready to observe. The model was named the Illustris. Interesting fact, this would have taken an average household desktops over 2000 years to reach that far.
The goal of Illustris at first was learning about the beginning of Universe and how it formed. Their assumption was, if they were able to simulate the model just close enough to our surrounding close observable universe, it would eventually formridiculously far corners of the universes that we can hardly observe. Gladly, it was possible. In this 350 Lightyears across universe, the team of scientists were able to assemble a Milkyway similar to ours.
Scientists have come closer in understanding how startsand galaxies formed. They have learned the facts about how great black holes play manipulating roles in forming each galaxies. Not only that!The unraveling of the most intriguing Galactic mysteries, Darkmatters and Cosmic Webs, also have been possible as a bonus. Both matters and darkmatters were equally distributed across the vast emptiness. Later both subjects separately clamped up together. Matters closed in further to create to complex elements and to form planets and life. On the other hand, darkmattersremained as strings in between creating the Cosmic Web. Though these webs also have stretched afar and clamped on certain sites billion years after.
As the study co-author Shy Genel said, it truly felt like a time-traveling journey.