Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy.

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 ...

An international team has captured an unprecedented image of a cosmic filament connecting two galaxies. This discovery sheds light on the structure of the cosmic web and its role in galaxy formation.

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Astronomers have identified an unprecedented cosmic titan—a vast superstructure of galaxies stretching 1.3 billion light-years across, making it the single largest known structure in the universe.

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over 250,000 simulations to show how these fields shaped the ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...