About Illustris

♤ The Illustris project is an international collaboration of scientists to simulate galaxy formation in the universesince the Big Bang in a comprehensive physical computer model based on the latest scientific information.

♤ It is a set of large-scale cosmological simulations, where

o the expansion of the universe,

o the gravitational pull of matter onto itself,

o the hydrodynamics of cosmic gas, as well as

o the formation of stars and black holes,

are all modeled starting from initial conditions resembling the very young Universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang.