The EAGLE Project is a supercomputer simulation aimed at understanding how galaxies form and evolve. Credit the Virgo Consortium for Cosmological Simulations
The EAGLE Project is a supercomputer simulation aimed at understanding how galaxies form and evolve. Credit the Virgo Consortium for Cosmological Simulations - You can't physically crash a planet into another planet in a lab to see what happens or look quite far enough back in time to see how the universe might have formed. So what do you do? At Durham we use supercomputer technology to simulate the universe as we seek to unravel its mysteries. How do galaxies form? What are dark matter and dark energy? And what will be the ultimate fate of the universe? COSMA supercomputer The COSMA supercomputer - with the memory of about 25,000 high-powered laptops - allows researchers to answer these big cosmological questions. COSMA is hosted by Durham as part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council-funded DiRAC High-Performance Computing facility to support researchers across the UK. Our cosmologists feed the rules of physics into COSMA to create virtual galaxies in precise detail. They add dark matter - which scientists believe provides the scaffolding for cosmic structures to grow - star forming gas and the dark energy thought to be driving the universe's expansion.
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