: Astronomers release massive set of ‘virtual universes’ for global research
Tue 28 Apr 2026; Understanding the Universe as a whole requires simulations on cosmic scales. An international team of astrophysicists, with a leading role for researchers at Leiden University, Netherlands, has now released one of the largest cosmological simulation datasets ever produced. The dataset contains more than 2.5 petabytes of simulation data – roughly equivalent to half a million HD movies. It is part of the FLAMINGO project, a suite of large-scale simulations designed to model how matter evolves across the Universe. The data release is described in a paper that was submitted to Astronomy & Computing today and released as a preprint. IMAGE | Slice through of a region of the Universe simulated with FLAMINGO: the cosmic web, the network in which galaxies are distributed. Credit: Schaye et al. 2023
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