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 ...

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 ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Since it's not likely that the Milky Way will be able to bind a 230-light-year-long galactic center filament in a cast, we're going to have to hope this fracture will heal itself over the millennia.

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

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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 ...