A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

From ROSAT’s long-archived X-ray data emerged Quipu—a 1.4-billion-light-year cosmic filament containing 68 galaxy clusters and 200 quadrillion solar masses. This colossal structure now challenges, ...

Astronomers have discovered the distant relatives of huge, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery that could help scientists finally explain these ...

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If you look at the universe on a big enough scale, the billions of galaxies out there aren’t randomly scattered. Instead, they form a structure made up of galaxies and the gas between them, which are ...

Behold, the stringy, rainbowesque melange of one-dimensional structures hidden in plain sight across the galactic center. Or should we say plane sight? The tendrils measure 5 to 150 light-years in ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe.

Imaging shows NGC 6789 building stars in near-total isolation, pushing scientists to rethink gas supply and formation in ...

If you're feeling all tied up with obligations this holiday season, perhaps a newly studied galaxy feels the same way. A new image of NGC 4631, more popularly known as the "Whale Galaxy," shows ropes ...

The centre of our galaxy is full of hundreds of strange threads of hot gas, which may have formed due to an outburst from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s resident supermassive black hole. Farhad Yusef ...

The Laniakea Supercluster, containing the Milky Way and Virgo Supercluster, was defined in 2014 using galaxy relative velocities, encompassing over 100,000 galaxies across 520 million light-years.