04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
..., for instance, string theory, and so is an interesting dark matter candidate.” Even though some of the earliest extended filaments in the fledgling Universe have been observed by Umehata and colleagues, it doesn't necessarily confirm that the cosmos...
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,...
16 June 2021
Astronomers discover the largest rotating objects in the Universe
... colleagues found that galaxies on one side of the filament were redshifted in comparison to the other side. Redshifted... were coming towards us, a result that indicated the whole filament was rotating. "Despite being thin cylinders - similar in ...
24 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...
07 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 ...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...magnetic fields revealed that in low-density outskirts of these filaments, matter flows in the direction of the magnetic field,...discovery that in the most opaque parts of the Serpens filaments, the magnetic field once again becomes parallel to the ...
