A simulation of the cosmic sheet as seen from the side, with voids above and below. (Wempe et al., Nat. Astron., 2026) The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but ...
Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...
For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...
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Study suggests the Milky Way sits in a sheet-like "pancake" of dark matter
An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...
Astronomers from UCT have uncovered the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby Universe.
How is it that galaxies merge and collide but the universe is expanding and everything is moving away from everything else? Justin HammersleySterling Heights, Michigan Whether or not galaxies merge ...
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...
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