Cosmic Skeleton Revealed: A Hidden Filament Maps the Universe’s Web
TL;DR
Astronomers using the FAST radio telescope traced a nearly four-light-year-long, linear filament of galaxies in the Ursa Major Supergroup, providing direct observational evidence of a delicate cosmic web strand dominated by dark matter that guides gas flows and galaxy formation across the universe.
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