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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy.

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

"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 ...

On a large scale, the universe is like a complex spider web, full of cosmic filaments of gas, dust and dark matter, separated by large voids. Now, in a remarkable new image, researchers captured one ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over 250,000 simulations to show how these fields shaped the ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...