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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

A supercomputer's simulation of the cosmic web filament, flowing with gas and feeding galaxy formation. Image: Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca/MPA Researchers compiled hundreds of ...

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 .

In particular, they speculated that some vortex lines might extend beyond a single halo, connecting galaxies through the vast filaments of the cosmic web — the gigantic tendrils of dark matter that ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These ...