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Scientists have discovered a massive, rotating galactic filament stretching about 50 million light-years across, containing roughly 300 galaxies that are all spinning ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite of X-ray and radio data showing galactic center filament G359.13142-0.20005. | Credit ...

Astronomers from the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) report the discovery of a new millisecond pulsar in the "Snake"—a radio filament in the galactic center. It is the first millisecond ...

Additionally, the vertical filaments measure up to 150 light-years high, surpassing the size of horizontal filaments, which measure only 5 to 10 light-years in length. While there are several hundred ...

The Milky Way has a broken "bone"—and it was caused by a collision with a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, speeding through it at some 1–2 million miles per hour. This is the diagnosis of a ...

Behold, the stringy, rainbowesque melange of one-dimensional structures hidden in plain sight across the galactic center. Or should we say plane sight? The tendrils measure 5 to 150 light-years in ...

New radio telescope images reveal hundreds of filaments along the galactic plane, each measuring 5 to 10 light-years in length These structures likely originated a few million years ago when outflow ...

Large-scale magnetic filaments spill downward from a black hole's jet, located in a distant cluster galaxy. Credit: Rudnick and collaborators, 2022 Large-scale magnetic filaments spill downward from a ...

At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a "cosmic web" made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching between gigantic clumps of matter. Or that's what our best models suggest. All ...

This X-ray/radio panorama of the galactic center takes data from NASA's Chandra and South Africa's MeerKAT telescopes. X-rays from Chandra are orange, green, and purple, showing different X-ray ...