07 November 2016
Astronomers detect a trio of unusual dwarf galaxies in the voids of the cosmic web
... along these threads and at the intersections of these filaments galaxies merge to become clusters, and then super clusters...unusual dwarf galaxies could represent the flow of material along a filament inside a void. The system in question is UGC 3672,...
23 November 2015
Could Earth be highlighting Hairy Dark Matter?
... week in the Astrophysical Journal, Prézeau suggests that a stream of dark matter particles is focused into an ultra-dense filament, or "hair" when it encounters an object such as a planet. In this case, many such hairs should be sprouting from Earth...
06 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
Nestled in gigantic filaments in a web of dark matter, a nest of monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 billion light-years away, have been observed by a research ...
10 July 2017
First glimpse at how gravity effects star formation
... to form a protostar. Examples of these huge dusty filaments are ubiquitous in the Milky Way, but so far astronomers.... Hence, our results reveal that this type of interstellar filament and hub system represents a privileged location for the formation...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... industry and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form of solar threat, though this is not addressed here. A long filament erupted on the Sun on 31 August 2012 and was imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Earth is a constantly...
27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
... fragmentation of a massive protostellar disk due to gravitational instability or larger scale fragmentation of turbulent gas cores and filaments. More evidence from more systems will be needed to help narrow down which of the two theories is more...
