Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

Hydrogen-rich galaxies are especially useful for tracing how gas flows along filaments into galaxies. By studying them, ...

Rotating razor-thin galaxy string found 140 million light-years away shows many galaxies spinning with their filament, hinting that large structures shape galaxy rotation. Cosmic filaments are the ...

Astronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing like a loose dusting. On its largest stretches, matter forms a vast web.

A quiet corner of the universe has offered a curious sight. Astronomers report a long, thin chain of galaxies moving in surprising ways. Their work outlines a structure that behaves far differently ...

Astronomers following interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say its buzz has been eclipsed by a much stranger sight: a colossal, ...

A group of galaxies inside a dark matter filament rotates with the filament itself The filament is 50 million light-years long and contains about 300 galaxies 14 galaxies form a 5.5 million light-year ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...