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...
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....
07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
... by gravity – by the large-scale structure in the Universe. "This latest result indicates that dark matter in the cosmic web, which accounts for about one-quarter of the content of the Universe, is less clumpy than we previously believed...
