: New simulations reveal the cold, dusty reality of galaxy formation
Mon 13 Apr 2026; The most realistic picture yet of how galaxies formed and then evolved from the beginning of time has been revealed in a suite of new and unique audiovisual simulations. This data, published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, shows that the standard cosmological model can successfully explain the observed growth of galaxies, from the first billion years after the Big Bang to the present day, when key physics is included. IMAGE | Visual impressions of the COLIBRE simulations. The panel on the left shows the so-called cosmic web, where the colour encodes the projected density of gas and stars. The panels on the right zoom into two simulated galaxies. (c) Schaye et al. (2026)
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