It's been over 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic, yet scientists remain captivated by the tragedy of one of the world's largest ships. According to The Mirror, they have recently succeeded in creating highly detailed scans with "cinematic sharpness" to understand the disaster further.

Extraordinary 3D images show the Titanic’s final moments after the famous ship struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean more than a century ago.

A new documentary explores the tragic final night of the RMS Titanic with the most detailed digital reconstruction of the ship ever created.

Now our understanding of how the Titanic sank could be transformed thanks to the creation of a digital twin of the wreckage based on 3D scans (see our pick of the best 3D scanners if you want to scan somewhat smaller objects).

The scan provides a new view of a boiler room, confirming eye-witness accounts that engineers worked right to the end to keep the ship's lights on. And a computer simulation also suggests that punctures in the hull the size of A4 pieces of paper led to the ship's demise.