Galaxy filament - Wikipedia
WEBIn cosmology, galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters. These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50/h to 80/h Megaparsecs (160 to 260 megalight-years)—with the largest found to date being the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall at around 3 gigaparsecs (9.8 ...
The Largest Rotating Objects in the Universe: Galactic Filaments ...
WEBJun 17, 2021 · Galaxies reside in filaments hundreds of millions of light-years long, on a backbone of dark matter. And, where those filaments meet, there are galaxy clusters.
Hundreds of Strange Filaments Surround the Galactic Center
WEBJun 7, 2023 · These filaments appear to be composed of huge amounts of cosmic ray electrons moving at close to the speed of light. And, most perplexingly, they often appear “stacked equally spaced, side by side like strings on a …
Strange Giant Filaments Reveal a Mystery at the Milky Way’s Heart
WEBJun 22, 2023 · Data from the MeerKAT radio telescope array show two types of filaments at the Milky Way’s center, running either perpendicular or parallel to the galactic plane.
Cosmic filaments may be the biggest spinning objects in space
WEBJun 22, 2021 · Cosmic filaments are the universe’s largest known structures and contain most of the universe’s mass (SN: 1/20/14). These dense, slender strands of dark matter …
Origin of Enigmatic Galactic-center Filaments Revealed
WEBJun 1, 2004 · Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered a number of enigmatic radio-emitting filaments concentrated near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. These features initially defied explanation, but a new study of radio images of the Galactic center may point to their possible source.
Structures newly discovered in the Milky Way | CNN
WEBJun 2, 2023 · The vertical filaments are located perpendicular to the galactic plane, while the horizontal ones are parallel to the plane and point radially toward the black hole, according to the news...
NASA’s Webb Identifies the Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web
WEBJun 29, 2023 · Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a thread-like arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the big bang.
Possible observational evidence for cosmic filament spin
WEBJun 14, 2021 · By stacking thousands of filaments together and examining the velocity of galaxies perpendicular to the filament’s axis (via their redshift and blueshift), we find that these objects too...
ESA Science & Technology - Herschel's hunt for filaments in the …
WEBThe study revealed nine filaments in some very dense, inner regions of the Galactic Plane, detecting these for the first time through the direct emission of dust within them, allowing an accurate determination of their mass, size and physical characteristics.
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