12 million years after the Big Bang . This is the starting point for the six-minute film on the history of the universe produced by an international team of researchers from Europe and the United States led by researcher Mark Vogelsberger from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The video simulation, published in the journal Nature , reflects the evolution of the cosmic web , that is, galaxies, dark matter and, for the first time, changes in gaseous and metallic elements, with unprecedented precision .
The researchers involved in the simulation model of the universe are convinced that one of the keys to its success lies in the computing power of computers , as well as in the improvement of numerical algorithms and the development of more faithful models than ever. to physics. Thus, the film shows changes in the temperature of gases using colors , for example. White represents heat, blue represents cold, and green represents warm temperature.
The video, which has been published on the MIT website, therefore presents a simultaneous evolution of all the components that have formed the galaxies in these 13,000 million years of the universe . Thanks to this successful simulation, relevant results could be obtained in the future in studies related to its evolution.
