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Astronomers have traced the hidden fingerprints of dark matter by observing rare, glowing galaxies that lived in the early ...

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The filament structure of the universe is strikingly congruent, in a topological sense, to the axon-neuronic structure of the ...

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 ...

Research using 250,000 simulations and observations shows early Universe magnetic fields were incredibly weak, yet still ...

Giant filaments crisscross the universe, connecting galaxy clusters like superhighways between cities. Their shape and structure encode vital information about the contents and history of the universe ...

Galactic filaments form the true shape of the universe. These massive strands of galaxies and dark matter create a vast cosmic web that stretches across billions of light-years. But how did they form?

Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called “voids”) and dense regions where the galaxies exist. This distribution is called the cosmic web. The ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

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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 ...