Astronomers have traced the filamentary skeleton of the universe back to its first billion years, producing the sharpest ...
Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called “voids”) and dense regions where the galaxies exist. This distribution is called the cosmic web. The ...
The universe has a skeleton. Astronomers call it the cosmic web — a vast scaffolding of gas filaments, dark matter, and galaxy clusters that organizes everything that exists across billions of ...
A slice through the COSMOS-Web cosmic-web map, showing galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history. The vertex on the left marks the present day; moving outward, each galaxy is placed at ...
New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...
ICRAR researchers have discovered tantalizing evidence of magnetic fields in the universe's largest cosmic structures. The cosmic web is how the universe looks at its largest scale—an interweaving web ...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...