Somewhere between the galaxy clusters that dot the observable universe, enormous threads of hot, diffuse gas stretch across millions of light-years. These filaments form the cosmic web, the ...

A simulation of the ‘cosmic web’, the vast network of threads and filaments that extends throughout the Universe. Stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters spring to life in the densest knots of this web, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive study of the cosmic web reveals that even ultra-weak magnetic fields from the early Universe helped shape the stars and ...

A vast structure seen more than 11 billion years ago reveals how clusters assembled from smaller clumps along the early ...

York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and cosmic large-scale structure throughout staggeringly large swaths ...

2D projection of the cosmic web as obtained from a supercomputer simulation. CREDIT Dr Ewald Puchwein and the Sherwood-Relics collaboration Dark matter could be made up of ultralight dark photons that ...

Astronomers have released the biggest ever computer simulation of the universe that gives researchers a fresh way to test how the cosmos formed and evolved. The dataset, built by the FLAMINGO project, ...

An international team of scientists from the Euclid Consortium has unveiled the most detailed virtual model of the Universe to date, simulating more than 3.4 billion galaxies. The synthetic dataset, ...

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 ...