In the Media

Newsweek’s Amanda Greenwood highlights Lumina, a simulation developed by a team of researchers from MIT and other institutions, that allows users “to follow the emergence of stars and galaxies across the first 2 billion years of cosmic history and compare the simulation's predictions with observations from modern telescopes.” Lumina “follows the evolution of dark matter, gas, stars and radiation across a volume of space about 1.6 billion light-years wide,” writes Greenwood. “Scientists can use the simulation to study both large-scale cosmic structure and the formation of individual galaxies.”