Articles for tag: cosmic web, galaxies, large scale structure, Universe structure

a large group of stars in the sky

The Cosmic Web: How Galaxies Are Connected Across Billions of Light-Years

Suhail Ahmed

  From a distance, the universe looks calm and almost empty, a vast black canvas scattered with lonely points of light. But as astronomers have learned over the past few decades, this first impression is spectacularly wrong: on the very largest scales, the cosmos is woven into a kind of three‑dimensional lace, a sprawling network ...