Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the cosmic ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest structure in the universe, named Quipu. It has a mass of 200 quadrillion solar masses ...

Now, researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. have homed in on one particular aspect of this equation to contemplate how a crucial component of our universe affects star formation and, by extension ...

“Formally, this light is called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), but we sometimes just call it the universe’s baby picture because it’s a snapshot of when it was around 380,000 years old.” ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — New research has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe's evolutionary history and found hints that it may be less clumpy at certain points than ...