What is the Millenium Simulation?
The Millennium Simulation, formally known as the Millennium Run, is one of the largest ever simulations of the development of the universe. The Millennium Simulation was developed in 2005 by the Virgo Consortium, a group of astrophysicists from Germany, the UK, Canada, Japan, and the USA. The simulation, which was run on a supercomputer in Garching, Germany, included over 10 billion “particles,” simulating 20 million galaxies and quasars in a virtual cube about 2 billion light years on a side. The Millennium Simulation was created as a tool to produce predictions about the large-scale structure of the universe and compare them against observational data and the theories of astrophysicists.
