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.

In context: The supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* lies at the center of the Milky Way, roughly 27,000 light years from Earth. The whole galaxy's activity is influenced by this monstrous ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has spotted a string of ancient galaxies connected by a cosmic filament dating back to the early days of the universe. This is the earliest filament ever seen of the ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new set of questions. Reading time 3 minutes Composite image showing the massive ...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research. The cosmic web is the largest pattern found in nature. It is made of galaxies the same ...

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

The JWST COSMOS-Web result, published in The Astrophysical Journal on May 6, 2026, traced the cosmic web by cataloguing 164,000 galaxies and placing them within the large-scale structure across cosmic ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers compiled hundreds of astronomical ...