In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

TACC's Frontera supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structures in the universe. Example Lyman-α forest spectra from ...