A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

More information: K. Migkas, et al. Detection of pure WHIM emission from a 7.2 Mpc long filament in the Shapley supercluster using X-ray spectroscopy, Astronomy and Astrophysics (2025).

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...