A new image reveals the structure of the cosmic web - Science News
2019年10月3日 · Computer simulations predicted the existence of the cosmic web, and astronomers previously have caught glimpses of a single filament (SN: 1/20/14). But scientists hadn’t seen the network ...
Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen
2024年9月18日 · Follow-up observations suggest that Porphyrion’s home galaxy is embedded in a filament of the cosmic web, the tangled skein of gas and galaxies where most of the universe’s ordinary matter ...
Astronomers spotted shock waves shaking the cosmic web
2023年3月6日 · Filaments make up most of the cosmic web but are much harder to spot than galaxies (SN: 1/20/14). While scientists have observed shock waves around galaxy clusters before, shocks in filaments ...
How slime mold helped scientists map out the cosmic web
2020年3月17日 · Scientists produced this map of the universe’s cosmic web based on locations and masses of known galaxies and the lacy patterns of slime mold. J. Burchett et al/Astrophysical Journal Letters 2020.
How to make the cosmic web give up the matter it’s hiding
2017年10月11日 · A. de Graaff et al. Missing baryons in the cosmic web revealed by the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. arXiv:1709.10378v1. Posted online September 29, 2017. Posted online September 29, 2017. About ...
Filament of cosmic web set aglow - Science News
2014年1月20日 · A new study concludes this cloud is a filament of the cosmic web containing the universe’s matter. S. Cantalupo Making such a finding is difficult because quasars shine only in specific ...
In a first, magnetic fields have been spotted between two galaxy …
2019年6月6日 · The finding suggests large structures in the cosmic web are magnetized. MAGNETIC CONNECTION Two distant galaxy clusters, Abell 0399 (left) and Abell 0401 (right), are connected by magnetic fields ...
A neutrino mass mismatch could shake cosmology’s foundations
2024年9月20日 · Neutrino mass curbs the formation of fine details of the cosmic web. These two computer simulations show the cosmic web with either massless neutrinos (left) or neutrinos with a summed mass of 500 ...
Cosmic filaments may be the biggest spinning objects in space
2021年6月22日 · These dense, slender strands of dark matter and galaxies connect the cosmic web, channeling matter toward galaxy clusters at each strand’s end (SN: 7/5/12).
Here are some astounding scientific firsts of 2023 - Science News
2023年12月18日 · Cosmic web shake-up Glowing threads of gas, galaxies and dark matter provided the first tangible evidence that shock waves permeate the cosmic web , the large-scale structure of the universe ( SN ...