Computer simulations have become so accurate that cosmologists can now use them to study dark matter, supermassive black holes, and other mysteries of the real evolving cosmos.

The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed computer simulation. In this scenario, the physical laws ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction ...

The simulation hypothesis suggests our universe could be a digital creation, not a physical “base” reality. Philosopher Nick Bostrom, in his 2003 paper Are You Living in a Computer Simulation ...

Scientists have used the world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest simulation of the cosmos ever created.

Their reasoning is pretty straightforward, according to Technology Review: if the cosmos is just a numerical simulation, calculated on some insanely powerful supercomputer tucked away in another ...