"Beacons in the Night" unveiling how galaxies light up dark matter

How dark matter influences the formation and evolution of galaxies is to this day an outstanding question inastrophysics. To answer it, world-class facilities and a unique combination of observations and theory arerequired. This DP team, a world-class team of observers and theorists, will tackle this question by leveraging ontwo multi-million dollar projects: the MAGPI galaxy survey and the hydrodynamical simulations suite EAGLE-XL.MAGPI will deliver exquisite kinematics for hundreds of galaxies in the middle ages of the Universe, providing aview to the effect of dark matter on galaxies at this critical time, while EAGLE-XL represents the technologicalfrontier in simulations and provides the best interpretative framework for MAGPI.