(Sky News) Scientists unveil ‘most accurate’ virtual representation of universe, backing Cold Dark Matter model

Our section of the universe has been mapped into the “most accurate simulation to date” by scientists using a supercomputer.

The simulations, which were unveiled at Durham university, capture the Big Bang to the present and the entire evolution of the cosmos.

Scientists used advanced statistical techniques so that the simulations were conditioned to reproduce our specific patch of the universe – therefore containing the present-day structures in the vicinity of our own galaxy.

At the centre of the simulation is a pair of galaxies – virtual representations of our own Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy.

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