Scientists developed world-first simulations that recreated the entire life cycle of some of the largest and most distant known galaxies in the observable universe, a press statement reveals.
The researchers worked on cosmological simulations, which have so far only been used to recreate nearby regions of the universe.
These new simulations, designed to reproduce observable structures in the universe and show how they interact with each other, are the first to recreate parts of the distant universe in such detail.
The researchers, who published their work in the journal Nature Astronomy, focused on distant structures called massive galaxy protoclusters, which are ancient ancestors of galaxy clusters observable in the universe today.
"We wanted to try developing a full simulation of the real distant universe to see how structures started out and how they ended," explained Metin Ata, the first author of the study, from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Project.
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