After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

An Einstein ring is light from a much more distant galaxy that bends in such a way as to perfectly encircle a closer object.

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards ... part in its mission to detect dark energy and dark matter in the ...