All Top News -- ScienceDaily•May 16
First-ever direct image of the cosmic web reveals the Universe’s hidden highways
Scientists have produced the clearest view ever of part of the cosmic web, the enormous hidden network of matter that stretches across the Universe and connects galaxies together. After spending hundreds of hours collecting observations, an international team captured a detailed image of a massive cosmic filament linking two actively forming galaxies from a time when the Universe was only about 2 billion years old. The study, led by Davide Tornotti, PhD student at the University of Milano-Bicocca, produced the sharpest image ever captured of a cosmic filament stretching roughly 3 million light-years.
