When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy.

The Universe hides a gigantic structure invisible to the naked eye. Galaxies organize themselves into a network called the cosmic web. This cosmic web, the largest known natural structure, connects ...

Astronomers have made an astounding discovery. According to a new paper featured in Nature Astronomy, we have now detected dark matter in the cosmic web for the very first time. The cosmic web is a ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over 250,000 simulations to show how these fields shaped the ...

"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...

You could swim through the deepest voids and encounter a single hydrogen atom in an entire football field's worth of space. At the very largest scales, galaxies are not scattered around randomly.