For decades, astronomers have known that galaxies are not scattered randomly through space. They cling to an enormous, mostly invisible network of dark-matter filaments, a structure so vast it dwarfs ...

Somewhere beyond the light of any single galaxy, a vast architecture of gas and dark matter stretches across the observable ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside announced on May 11 that they have produced the most detailed map of ...

Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made a ...

If you're feeling all tied up with obligations this holiday season, perhaps a newly studied galaxy feels the same way. A new image of NGC 4631, more popularly known as the "Whale Galaxy," shows ropes ...

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 ...