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A computer simulated image of a purple and orange web-like structure

Scientists share groundbreaking image of the 'cosmic web' connecting 2 galaxies near the dawn of time

By Shreejaya Karantha published

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" connecting two distant galaxies. The discovery opens new windows for understanding how structures form and evolve in the universe.

Astronomy
An artist's illustration of Porphyrion shows the gigantic jet stretching across the tendrils of the cosmic web.

Biggest black hole jets ever seen are as long as 140 Milky Ways

By Ben Turner published

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping galaxies than previously thought.

Black Holes
An illustration shows a galaxy ensnared within a cosmic web of gas dust.

How do galaxies grow while ensnared in the universe's cosmic web?

By Robert Lea published

New simulations show how thousands of galaxies evolve by traveling through the strands of gas, dust and stars that make up the universe's "cosmic web."

Cosmology
The sky section of the eROSITA All-Sky Survey catalog in two different representations. The left image shows extended X-ray emission, while the right image shows point-like X-ray sources.

More than 900,000 stars, galaxies and black holes revealed in most detailed X-ray map of the universe ever

By Brandon Specktor published

Scientists using the eROSITA X-ray telescope have released a trove of data that reveals more than 900,000 objects in space, including 700,000 supermassive black holes and other 'exotic' objects.

Black Holes
James Webb Space Telescope in outer space.

8 stunning James Webb Space Telescope discoveries made in 2023

By Ben Turner published

The oldest ever black holes, a preview of our solar system's gory demise, and a measurement of distant starlight that threatens to bring the standard of cosmology crashing down — here are the JWST's wildest discoveries of 2023.

Space
An artist's Illustration of Hoʻoleilana.

Mysterious 'fossilized' bubble 10,000 times the size of the Milky Way could be a relic from the Big Bang

By Ben Turner published

Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup.

Astronomy
An artist’s impression of the cosmic web. Shown as a vast cobweb-like structure of mostly purple and some orange filaments on a black background, the web is the soap-sud structure of the universe along whose filaments galaxies including our own form..

$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 scientists who study the large scale structure of the universe

By Ben Turner published

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.

Cosmology
Crackles of orange streak across a purple background, representing tendrils of gas in the cosmic web that unites all galaxies

James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen

By Joanna Thompson published

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.

Cosmology
eagle visualization

Einstein was right about invisible dark matter, massive new map of the universe suggests

By Ben Turner published

Light produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang was warped by the universe's dark matter exactly the way Einstein predicted it would be.

Space
A simulation of the cosmic web showing shock waves producing radio waves (pink) as they crash through magnetic fields (blue).

Galaxy-size shock waves found rattling the cosmic web — the largest structure in the universe

By Ben Turner published

Astronomers have detected enormous shockwaves rattling the cosmic web that connects all galaxies in the universe, offering vital clues on how the largest structures in space were shaped.

Cosmology
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