US EditionScientists discover one of our universe's largest spinning structures — a 50-million-light-year-long cosmic thread
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An international study led by the University of Oxford (UK) has discovered one of the largest rotating structures ever known in the universe.
At 50 million-light-years long, scientists discover one of the universe’s largest structures
Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing like a loose dusting. On its largest stretches, matter forms a vast web. Thick clusters rise where threads meet. Long filaments bind them together. Immense voids lie between, empty as oceans without water. Astronomers have long thought these filaments act like space highways. Gas, dark matter and entire galaxies drift along …
Astronomers Spot Galaxies Moving in Sync Across a 50-Million-Light-Year Stretch
Astronomers have identified a 50-million-light-year-long cosmic filament in which 14 gas-rich galaxies all rotate in sync with the structure itself. The filament, mapped about 140 million light-years away, appears young, cold and shaped by slow cosmic flows. Galaxies on opposite ends move in opposite directions, suggesting the entire filament is spinning.
Scientists have discovered one of the largest rotating structures in the universe. The cosmic thread extends over 50 million light-years and houses a total of about 300 galaxies. read more on t3n.de
Scientists have discovered a cosmic filament 50 million light-years across that could rewrite the evolution of galaxies
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