Scientist image 3-million-light-year-long 'cosmic web' ensnaring 2 galaxies for 1st time
Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...
Einstein Rings and the cosmic lens: How NGC 6505 is reshaping our understanding of gravity
It is a cosmic phenomenon that elegantly showcases the warping of space-time, a consequence of gravity predicted over a ...
What Is Quipu? Scientists Discover Superstructure Larger Than the Milky Way
Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...
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The Universe Has Been Expanding For 13.8 Billion Years, And The Rate That It Expands Is Increasing. But What Is It Expanding Into If The Universe Is Finite?
Understanding the universe’s expansion can be quite perplexing, especially when we try to envision what it’s expanding into.
Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Weak gravitational lensing could provide an answer
A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption ...
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Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out
A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the ...
Astronomers find the largest structure in the universe and name it Quipu
Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...