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 ...

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 ...

The consortium running the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms developed by UZH ...

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 ...

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, ...

To develop hypotheses about the structure of the cosmic web, researchers gathered data from 24,000 galaxies and applied algorithms to the data set. Kim Albrecht built a simulation that explores 3 ...

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, ...