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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid space observatory, and Hawaii’s Subaru Telescope, the researchers discovered faint light emitting around the clusters. That light was clear ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe. Research led by the University of Michigan ...

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 ...