Image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing two dwarf galaxies (NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, depicted as glowing hues) connected by a wispy bridge of gas (seen as a red stream). There are ...

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Scientists detected missing ordinary matter in a 23-million-light-year cosmic filament between galaxy clusters using X-ray telescopes The discovery found gas heated to 10+ million degrees with density ...

That the Universe is largely composed of a cosmic web consisting of narrow filaments upon which galaxies and intergalactic gas and dust are concentrated has been known for more than a decade. While a ...

A figure illustrating the rotation of a newly discovered cosmic filament. (Seoyoung Lyla Jung/University of Oxford) (CN) — It appears the more we investigate the universe for answers, the more ...

JWST spotted ten galaxies connected by an invisible cosmic filament. The filament, which is millions of light years long, is the earliest ever seen. Its discovery could shed light on how our universe ...

Cosmic filament The newly discovered filament connecting four galaxy clusters, which are visible as bright spots at the bottom and top of the filament. A mottled band of purple stretches between these ...

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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 ...

The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is the ...