The Milky Way supposedly lies in the immense Laniākea basin, but even that is now thought to be part of a bigger basin of (gravitational) attraction known as the Shapley Supercluster. This ...

An unusual astronomical image of a distant galaxy could reveal the presence of a mysterious substance that makes up the majority of our Universe, but remains invisible to our instruments. When ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct image of the cosmic web, a vast and largely invisible structure that plays a ...

A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter halo. An international team of astronomers, including Rutgers scientists, ...

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