A series of recent observations is bringing the large-scale dark matter scaffolding of the cosmos into sharper observational ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the Universe, a giant cosmic filament located 140 million light-years away. This ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe.

If you look at the universe on a big enough scale, the billions of galaxies out there aren’t randomly scattered. Instead, they form a structure made up of galaxies and the gas between them, which are ...

Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made a fascinating discovery: a structure of "strange filaments" driving a cycle ...

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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 ...

If you're feeling all tied up with obligations this holiday season, perhaps a newly studied galaxy feels the same way. A new image of NGC 4631, more popularly known as the "Whale Galaxy," shows ropes ...

Behold, the stringy, rainbowesque melange of one-dimensional structures hidden in plain sight across the galactic center. Or should we say plane sight? The tendrils measure 5 to 150 light-years in ...

Cosmic connections: this map made by the MUSE instrument at the Very Large Telescope shows gas filaments in blue running horizontally. The white dots embedded within these filaments are very active ...