The idea that gravity shapes the universe into nicely bounded superclusters is being overturned by a finding so gargantuan ...

Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

While the cosmic microwave background provides a picture of the early Universe and galaxy surveys plot out the basic structure of the cosmic web, the filaments connecting everything together are ...

The cosmic web is a network of filaments, made up of matter, that feed gas into galaxies, helping them grow. This web also helps channel galaxies together, leading them to cluster.

Map showing gas filaments of the cosmic web (blue) running from the top to the bottom of the image, detected using the MUSE instrument at the Very Large Telescope.

Behold the cosmic web. This map shows gas filaments (blue) running from the top to the bottom of the image, linking galaxies in an ancient cluster 12 billion light-years away.

We zoom out again, and we finds the filaments, the walls, arcs, and bubbles that make up the cosmic web. But what happens if we zoom out again. Well, we reach the end of greatness .

On a scale that’s hard to fathom, the universe is structured like a “cosmic web." Astronomers have now directly observed light from filaments in this web, by staring at a patch of sky with a ...

He adds, however, that a cosmic web filament is only one interpretation. Since seeing the gas requires illumination and the team is looking in a bright place, ...