The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is the ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a "razor-thin" string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic ...

Radio waves emanate from the gap between two merging galaxy clusters. This first-of-its kind detection suggests that the "threads" that bridge galaxy clusters in the universe are home to magnetic ...

Using a large spectroscopic sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the team found that satellite galaxies ...

This deep galaxy field from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies (white circles) in a diagonal, threadlike line. Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have studied a giant filament of dark matter in 3-D for the first time. Extending 60 million light-years from one of the most massive galaxy ...