A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is forcing astronomers to rethink how structure and motion emerge on the grandest ...

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Astronomers have identifiedone of the largest rotating filament ever seen, a structure that stretches over 5.5 million light-years and contains hundreds of galaxies. This giant filament, located ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

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"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

A section of the three-dimensional map constructed by BOSS. Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration. Credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new study in published in ...