The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

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These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

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Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away.

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Astronomers have completed the largest and most detailed study of what triggers stars to form in the universe’s biggest galaxies using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. They have ...