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

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

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

Using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, an animation has been created that "reveals a 3-D slice through a network of ...

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

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

Dr Wang’s research focuses on the ‘Local Group’ (a pair of dark matter halo that includes our Milky Way and its neighbour Andromeda) and how it is linked to the larger cosmic web, a vast network of ...

For decades, at least half of this regular matter had eluded detection, but scientists have in recent years made the first direct observations of a 'cosmic web' of filaments spanning between galaxies.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...