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Astronomers Map 50-Million–Light-Year Rotating Cosmic Filament Nearby

New radio–optical measurements show a nearby filament rotating with aligned galaxy spins.

JWST Reveals 'Alaknanda,' a Milky Way–Like Spiral 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang

New Peer-Reviewed Model Says Changing Constants Could Explain Dark Matter and Dark Energy

JWST Study Proposes ‘Black Hole Stars’ to Explain Mysterious Early‑Universe Red Dots

Vast Simulations Sharpen Limits on Primordial Magnetism With 0.2-Nanogauss Best Fit

New Modeling Strengthens Direct-Collapse Black Hole Explanation for JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’

Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Localized to Dwarf Galaxy at z=2.148

Dual Lensing-Kinematics Study Confirms 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole in Cosmic Horseshoe

Astronomers Pin Down Universe’s Missing Matter in Cosmic Web