The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how galaxies formed.

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how galaxies form.

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is ...

These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Astronomers have completed the largest and most detailed study of what triggers stars to form in the universe’s biggest galaxies using NASA’s ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Astronomers have completed the largest and most detailed study of what triggers stars to form in the universe’s biggest galaxies using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. They have ...