UniverseMachine

[4][6] According to Behroozi, "On the computer, we can create many different universes and compare them to the actual one, and that lets us infer which rules lead to the one we see.

"[1] Besides lead investigator Behroozi, research team members include astronomer Charlie Conroy of Harvard University, physicist Andrew Hearin of the Argonne National Laboratory and physicist Risa Wechsler of Stanford University.

Support funding for the project is provided by NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics.

"[4] One of the results of the study suggests that denser dark matter in the early universe does not seem to negatively impact star formation rates, as thought initially.

[6] The researchers expect to extend the project's objectives to include how often stars expire in supernovae, how dark matter may affect the shape of galaxies[6] and eventually, by gaining better general cosmological insights, how life originated.