The First Results From The IllustrisTNG Simulation Of The Universe Has Been Completed, Showing How Our Cosmos Evolved From The Big Bang

The first results of the IllustrisTNG Project have been published in three separate studies, and they’re shedding new light on how black holes shape the cosmos, and how galaxies form and grow. The IllustrisTNG Project bills itself as “The next generation of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations.” The Project is an ongoing series of massive hydrodynamic simulations of our Universe. Its goal is to understand the physical processes that drive the formation of galaxies.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

The First Results From The IllustrisTNG Simulation Of The Universe Has Been Completed, Showing How Our Cosmos Evolved From The Big Bang

The first results of the IllustrisTNG Project have been published in three separate studies, and they’re shedding new light on how black holes shape the cosmos, and how galaxies form and grow. The IllustrisTNG Project bills itself as “The next generation of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations.” The Project is an ongoing series of massive hydrodynamic simulations of our Universe. Its goal is to understand the physical processes that drive the formation of galaxies.

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Is there any more technical information on this? eg. assumed dark matter uniformity, timescale for the simulation, resolution, mesh refinement in regions of high density, equations? I know a bit about hydrodynamics, and brute force computing needs to be combined with top quality numerical methods to get a reliable result.

It gives the distance scale as 300 Megaparsecs across. The Fornax cluster of galaxies is about 20 Megaparsecs away, the visible universe is about 4,000 Megaparsecs from here to the edge. So 300 Megaparsecs is quite a decent distance.