Astronomers have identified one of the largest rotating structures ever observed, located 140 million light-years from Earth. It is a massive, spinning cosmic filament containing an incredibly ...
Rotating razor-thin galaxy string found 140 million light-years away shows many galaxies spinning with their filament, hinting that large structures shape galaxy rotation. Cosmic filaments are the ...
Some cosmic discoveries over the years have astonished us in ways that we might have never imagined. Each new finding—whether it’s a distant galaxy or a mysterious cosmic signal—reminds us how much ...
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 ...
The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...