{"id":800995,"date":"2026-03-04T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800995"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:32:28","slug":"new-simulations-reveal-what-happened-at-the-beginning-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800995","title":{"rendered":"New simulations reveal what happened at the beginning of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Astrophysicist Katy Clough uses supercomputers to simulate conditions at the start of the universe and other strong gravity regimes, such as around black holes, testing the limits of general relativity and the standard model of particle physics. Known as numerical relativity, these models are \u201canswering some of the biggest questions, like, how did the universe begin? What\u2019s inside a black hole? What happens when black holes merge?\u201d, says Clough.<\/p>\n<h4>Read more: We\u2019ve glimpsed before the big bang and it\u2019s not what we expected\u00a0<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"ArticleTopics\" data-component-name=\"article-topics\">\n<p class=\"ArticleTopics__Heading\">Topics:<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/video\/2518038-new-simulations-reveal-what-happened-at-the-beginning-of-the-universe\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicist Katy Clough uses supercomputers to simulate conditions at the start of the universe and other strong gravity regimes, such as around black holes, testing the limits of general relativity&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}