Using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, an animation has been created that "reveals a 3-D slice through a network of hydrogen gas filaments that crisscross the spaces between galaxies," according ...

Scientists detected missing ordinary matter in a 23-million-light-year cosmic filament between galaxy clusters using X-ray telescopes The discovery found gas heated to 10+ million degrees with density ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the cosmic web where the universe's missing matter was discovered. | Credit: ...

A figure illustrating the rotation of a newly discovered cosmic filament. (Seoyoung Lyla Jung/University of Oxford) (CN) — It appears the more we investigate the universe for answers, the more ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing like a loose dusting. On its largest stretches, matter forms a vast web.

The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

You could swim through the deepest voids and encounter a single hydrogen atom in an entire football field's worth of space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Rotating razor-thin galaxy string found 140 million light-years away shows many galaxies spinning with their filament, hinting that large structures shape galaxy rotation. Cosmic filaments are the ...

Astronomers have identified the largest known single spinning structure within the cosmic web, a filament approximately 117,000 light-years across and 5.5 million light-years long, situated 424 ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The discovery provided ...