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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...