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Space
Space
Science
Stefanie Waldek

The largest-ever simulation of the universe has just been released

A series of weblike shapes made of green and white fibers spread across a black background.

Are we living in a simulation? Well, the jury's out on that one. But humans do create simulations all the time.

In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just published the world's most extensive simulation of the universe. It maps an astonishing 3.4 billion galaxies and tracks the gravitational interactions of more than 4 trillion particles.

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