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Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is forcing astronomers to rethink how structure and motion emerge on the grandest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A figure depicting the rotation of neutral hydrogen in galaxies residing in an extended filament, where the galaxies exhibit a ...

JWST color-composed image of the Cosmic Vine. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.04867 An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a large-scale structure that consists ...

Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This ...

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...

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The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of non-collisional cold dark matter (CDM), various models are considered: WIMPs (Weakly ...

When invisible dark matter spins, it may form clumps of "vortexes" that stretch across space, forming the cosmic web that links all galaxies, new research proposes. When you purchase through links on ...