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Galactic filaments defy imagination. Larger than superclusters, older than Earth itself, they span across the fabric of space ...

Galactic filaments form the true shape of the universe. These massive strands of galaxies and dark matter create a vast ...

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 ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's longest filaments. Reading time 2 minutes A galactic filament that stretches ...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the early 1980s, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered ...

Active galactic nuclei, energetic and luminous regions powered by an accreting supermassive black hole at the center of some galaxies, can launch a jet that drives a gas outflow, shaping star ...

Morphological structure of the galactic outflow in VV 340a. This artistic rendering illustrates a multi-phase galactic ...