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

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 ...

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although NGC 1511 is striking in appearance, it is not the kind of galaxy most would hope to live beside. Featured in this ...

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.

Decades ago the astronomy world was taken aback by the discovery of strange vertical filaments of light spiking out from our galaxy's central black hole. Now, the astronomer responsible for that ...

Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made a fascinating discovery: a structure of "strange filaments" driving a cycle ...

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 ...

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 have discovered a colossal cosmic structure that’s so big it threatens to undermine our entire understanding of the universe. The Big Ring spans about 3% of the radius of the entire ...