A colossal cosmic filament, measuring 50 million light-years long, has been discovered spinning in deep space, astonishing astronomers with its scale and movement. The filament, which contains more ...

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 ...

A figure illustrating the rotation of a newly discovered cosmic filament. (Seoyoung Lyla Jung/University of Oxford) (CN) — It appears the more we investigate the universe for answers, the more ...

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Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing like a loose dusting. On its largest stretches, matter forms a vast web.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A figure depicting the rotation of neutral hydrogen in galaxies residing in an extended filament, where the galaxies exhibit a ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Left) An image of the sky in the direction of the cosmic web detection (Right) The image shows ...

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 ...

This image shows the new filament, which connects four galaxy clusters: two on one end, two on the other. These clusters are visible as bright spots at the bottom and top of the filament (four white ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos, a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the ...