Missing Ingredient Finally Reveals How Galaxies Formed at The Dawn of Time
Science Alert / Space 15 April 2026 By Michelle Starr https://www.sciencealert.com/missing-ingredient-finally-reveals-how-galaxies-formed-at-the-dawn-of-time The COLIBRE cosmological simulation project https://colibre.strw.leidenuniv.nl/ "Some early JWST results were thought to challenge the standard cosmological model," says astronomer Evgenii Chaikin of Leiden University in the Netherlands. "Once key physical processes are represented more realistically, the model is consistent with what we see." "It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing and share many of the properties that astronomers measure in real data, such as their number, luminosities, colors, and sizes," says physicist Carlos Frenk of Durham University in the UK.