Although dark matter is a central element of modern cosmology, the history of how it became
accepted as part of the dominant paradigm is often ignored or condensed into an anecdotal …

Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest
challenges in astrophysics today due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical …

The dawn of the twenty-first century came with very positive prospects for gravity, cosmology,
and astrophysics. Technological progress made it possible for cosmology to enter to its …

Formation of galaxy clusters corresponds to the collapse of the largest gravitationally bound
overdensities in the initial density field and is accompanied by the most energetic …

We review the formalism and applications of non-linear perturbation theory (PT) to
understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe. We first discuss the dynamics of …

Understanding the formation of stars in galaxies is central to much of modern astrophysics.
However, a quantitative prediction of the star formation rate and the initial distribution of …

We investigate the properties of haloes, galaxies and black holes to z= 0 in the high-
resolution hydrodynamical simulation MassiveBlack-II (MBII) which evolves a Λ cold dark …

Studies of galaxy clusters have proved crucial in hel** to establish the standard model of
cosmology, with a Universe dominated by dark matter and dark energy. A theoretical basis …

▪ Abstract Cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies have and will
continue to revolutionize our understanding of cosmology. The recent discovery of the …

We study the impact of setting initial conditions in numerical simulations using the standard
procedure based on the Zel'dovich approximation (ZA). As it is well known from the …