Galaxies aren’t scattered randomly they’re woven into vast filaments stretching across billions of light-years. These threads ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe.

Scientists detected missing ordinary matter in a 23-million-light-year cosmic filament between galaxy clusters using X-ray telescopes The discovery found gas heated to 10+ million degrees with density ...

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With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant "odd radio circle" ever detected.

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen. That’s far enough to influence the evolution of the universe on cosmic ...

TOKYO — When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a "guest star" in the Cassiopeia ...

The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in complex networks known as the cosmic web.

In this artist's conception of Pa 30 Nebula, the odd filaments can be seen shooting away from its core. © W.M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Somewhere out in deep ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...