On a clear night, it might look like the stars above are distributed more or less evenly. But that isn't the case — all stars are part of a gigantic cosmic web that links galaxies across the universe ...

In a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ancient galaxies are strung along one gargantuan cosmic thread like pearls on an antique necklace. When astronomers peer into the deepest ...

A supercomputer's simulation of the cosmic web filament, flowing with gas and feeding galaxy formation. Image: Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca/MPA Researchers compiled hundreds of ...

On a large scale, the universe is like a complex spider web, full of cosmic filaments of gas, dust and dark matter, separated by large voids. Now, in a remarkable new image, researchers captured one ...

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Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

Astronomers have made an astounding discovery. According to a new paper featured in Nature Astronomy, we have now detected dark matter in the cosmic web for the very first time. The cosmic web is a ...

Visualization of the largest structures in the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. CREDIT NASA/University of Chicago and Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum The universe is peppered with ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct image of the cosmic web, a vast and largely invisible structure that plays a ...

"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...