Lumina simulation renders the early universe in detail

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScientists have built one of the most detailed simulations yet of the universe's first two billion years, Popular Science reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's called Lumina, it comes from a team at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and Smithsonian, and the pictures are gorgeous.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt models a cube one and a half billion light-years wide, and the cosmic web in the images is about six hundred fifty million light-years across.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd it covers over a hundred times the volume of previous comparable simulations, according to the researchers.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHow many computers did that take?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMore than fifteen thousand graphics processing units. I'd call that a very thorough submission.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLead author Oliver Zier says, quote, to understand what we are seeing with this telescope, we need to translate our theories into detailed predictions.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo it's a prediction.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA confident one, and the James Webb and Nancy Roman telescopes get to check whether it's right.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFifteen thousand processors, and the universe still gets to mark it.