An artist’s impression of the Big Bang, an event that is believed to have begun the birth of the universe
A new simulation maps the first few seconds after the Big Bang, focusing on what scientists call the intergalactic medium, or the gas and dust between galaxies. A team led by researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) used machine learning, a type of algorithm in which a computer is trained to recognise patterns, to complete 100,000 hours of computation.