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

This cosmic web, the largest known natural structure, connects galaxies through filaments of dark matter. These filaments stretch across tens of millions of light-years, creating immense walls ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

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 ...

Still, the universe extends for tens of billions of light-years in every direction, and so does the cosmic web, even if there might be the occasional clump we can’t quite explain yet.

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...

The cosmic web’s structure will become clearer through Euclid Space Telescope data. Euclid’s charge is to decode the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and assemble an atlas of the ...

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 ...

The cosmic web is a proposed web of filaments that scientists believe stretches throughout the universe, catching galaxies in it like a spider might catch insects in its web.

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

At the very largest scales, galaxies are not scattered around randomly. Instead, they form a pattern called the cosmic web. In fact, this is the largest pattern found in nature, with galaxies ...