In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct image of the cosmic web, a vast and largely invisible structure that plays a ...

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

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 aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

Astronomers have known about the cosmic web for decades. A famous paper published in 1986, "A Slice of the Universe," produced the first observational evidence of filaments — bands of gas connecting ...

While astronomers know that the cosmic web exists, how it evolved into what it is today largely remains a mystery. However, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers ...

Cosmic Web Seen Directly For First Time Without Needing The Light Of Quasars New observations have revealed the darkest portion of the network of filaments that spans the cosmos. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti ...

The team of astronomers were successfully able to detect light from hard-to-see gas filaments in a region of the cosmic web that is located 10.5 billion light-years away from Earth.

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 ...

The cosmic web vaguely looks like a network of strings, so cosmologists openly wondered if the two were linked. Early in the history of the Universe, the thinking went, ...

Cosmic-scale magnetic fields have long been universal mystery. But the discovery of shockwaves in the thinner parts of the cosmic web may help researchers better understand how those fields ...