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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...