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 ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a huge strand of galaxies, twisting around as though caught up in a ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the Universe, a giant cosmic filament located 140 million light-years away. This ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

Dark matter is so pervasive throughout galaxies that its presence explains the stability and motion of stars in systems such as the Milky Way. For example, current models indicate that our galaxy is ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

A team of astronomers using a Yale supercomputer have determined for the first time that galaxies in denser environments are as much as 25% larger than their counterparts in less dense regions of the ...

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For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

Invisible forces, capable of shaping entire galaxies and accelerating cosmic winds to dizzying speeds, have just been observed by astronomers in Arp 220. This merging galaxy system is located ...

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 ...