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An artist’s impression of the cosmic web. Shown as a vast cobweb-like structure of mostly purple and some orange filaments on a black background, the web is the soap-sud structure of the universe along whose filaments galaxies including our own form..

$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 scientists who study the large scale structure of the universe

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.

James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.

By Joanna Thompson Published 6 July 23
Einstein was right about invisible dark matter, massive new map of the universe suggests

Light produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang was warped by the universe's dark matter exactly the way Einstein predicted it would be.

By Ben Turner Published 11 April 23
Galaxy-size shock waves found rattling the cosmic web — the largest structure in the universe

Astronomers have detected enormous shockwaves rattling the cosmic web that connects all galaxies in the universe, offering vital clues on how the largest structures in space were shaped.

By Ben Turner Published 7 March 23

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