by Moons do it, stars do it, even whole galaxies do it. Now, two teams of scientists say cosmic filaments do it, too.
These tendrils stretching hundreds of millions of light-years spin, twirling like giant corkscrews.
Cosmic filaments are the universe’s largest known structures and contain most of the universe’s mass (SN: 1/20/14).
These dense, slender strands of dark matter and galaxies connect the cosmic web, channeling matter toward galaxy clusters at each strand’s end (SN: 7/5/12).
At the instant of the Big Bang, matter didn’t rotate; then, as stars and galaxies formed, they began to spin.
Until now, galaxy clusters were the largest structures known to rotate.
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These tendrils stretching hundreds of millions of light-years spin, twirling like giant corkscrews.
Cosmic filaments are the universe’s largest known structures and contain most of the universe’s mass (SN: 1/20/14).
These dense, slender strands of dark matter and galaxies connect the cosmic web, channeling matter toward galaxy clusters at each strand’s end (SN: 7/5/12).
At the instant of the Big Bang, matter didn’t rotate; then, as stars and galaxies formed, they began to spin.
Until now, galaxy clusters were the largest structures known to rotate.
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