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Galactic filaments are vast strands of matter that stretch across hundreds of millions of light-years. They form the backbone of the cosmic web, connecting galaxies and clusters in enormous chains.

The Milky Way has a broken "bone"—and it was caused by a collision with a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, speeding through it at some 1–2 million miles per hour. This is the diagnosis of a ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's longest filaments. Reading time 2 minutes A galactic filament that stretches ...

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the early 1980s, Northwestern University’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discovered ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy, dust and gases constantly churn as energetic shock waves ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close to the center of the galaxy there are elongated filaments that seem to outline its spiral shape. Scientists have a ...

A view of the center of our galaxy shows the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, where cold dust (magenta) and warmer gas and dust (cyan) surround a cluster of massive stars. The stars generate high-speed ...