The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

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

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

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...