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Astronomers stunned by giant rotating chain of 14 galaxies—possibly the 'largest spinning object' ever discovered
The object in question is a cosmic filament, a thread-like chain of gas that is about 5.5 million light-years in length and 117,000 light-years in width.
The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how galaxies formed.
An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...
A razor-thin cosmic filament is one of the largest rotating structures ever found, with implications for early galaxy ...
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