New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.
After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...
showing galaxy clusters and superclusters arranged in long filaments and concentrated at nodes. Mark Garlick / Science Photo ...
From Side filaments, it has Smaller branches extending from the main structure. It is Invisible to the naked eye but prominent in galaxy cluster sky maps. The discovery of Quipu was made possible ...
The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...
Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...
Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope. Observations ...