Three weeks later, she stood in a packed auditorium at the American Astronomical Society meeting. Her slides showed Theia’s simulations side-by-side with actual Hubble data of supernova remnants. The match was perfect. The room was silent.
Which meant the expansion of the universe had been measured with a flawed ruler. computational modeling and simulation
A roiling, turbulent flame front, shaped not like a sphere but like a crumpled piece of paper, tore through the simulated star. It folded, stretched, and folded again—a fractal dragon of fire. Within 0.8 simulated seconds, the entire white dwarf was a cauldron of nickel-56. Three weeks later, she stood in a packed
Tonight, however, was different.