A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have taken an unprecedentedly detailed look at the tendrils and filaments that wrap around supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies of Abell 2255.

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...