07 November 2016
Astronomers detect a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies in the voids of the cosmic web
... to show the slow formation of galaxy mergers along filamentary pathways in the voids of the cosmic web. The cosmic web can be thought of as just that – a vast web-like structure formed by all of the galaxies in the Universe, linked by long tenuous...
11 October 2017
Have astronomers found the missing mass in the Universe?
... be residing had revealed that they could be spread throughout warm-hot filamentary gas in the cosmic web. The cosmic web is just that - a web of matter clustered in thread-like structures (filaments) and nodes. However, because the gas is relatively...
16 June 2021
Astronomers discover the largest rotating objects in the Universe
... now. Stretched out across the Universe and separated by giant voids, the far-reaching tendrils of the cosmic web are the perfect place to grow galaxies. These structures are so huge that the largest known filament...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
... long strands of gas spread throughout the cosmos, forming web-like structures as it grew. Now though, it is generally ...believed that it is the other way around - it is the web-like filaments which fuelled the formation of clusters of galaxies and galaxies...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... to an age of the Universe of 0.942 Gyr. *2; The Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) is a powerful imaging...flowed into them along the "cosmic web.” For more information on this survey, go to http://candels.ucolick...
26 April 2017
Cold Spot in CMB could be evidence for a multiverse
...void explanation it was initially given, say researchers. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is radiation left over from ... the CMB are said to have given rise to the vast cosmic web of galaxy clusters as the Universe expanded, that are seen today....