The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...

Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It is 1.4 billion light years across and contains nearly 70 galactic superclusters. It is also hundreds of thousands of times more ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

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Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

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