Credits: Photo courtesy of the researcher. Caption: Mark Vogelsberger and his colleagues created simulations showing that competing models of dark matter produce primordial star-forming regions that look very different from one another. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers Previous image Next image Mark Vogelsberger, an associate professor of physics at MIT, has received the 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize in a collaboration led by Phillip Mocz, a postdoc at Princeton University. Their research presents a novel simulation of the early universe with a theorized ultralight, or “fuzzy,” dark matter particle. The Buchalter Prize awarded the researchers Third Prize and $2,500 for their boundary-pushing work in cosmology.