First Image Ever Of The Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe Together
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/first-image-ever-of-the-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-universe-together/

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have taken the first image ever (on the left) of the Cosmic Web that binds the Universe together. I use capitals because if there’s a Cosmic Web that connects all galaxies through the universe, it should be capitalised.

In a research paper published in Nature this Sunday, the astronomers describe how they took the image using the 10-meter telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii:

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CrazyNeutrino said:

First Image Ever Of The Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe Together
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/first-image-ever-of-the-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-universe-together/

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have taken the first image ever (on the left) of the Cosmic Web that binds the Universe together. I use capitals because if there’s a Cosmic Web that connects all galaxies through the universe, it should be capitalised.

In a research paper published in Nature this Sunday, the astronomers describe how they took the image using the 10-meter telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii:

more….

>>The image confirms the theory of Cosmic Web that entangles the Universe itself, a network of threads that is made mostly — about 84 per cent — of invisible dark matter:<<

Isn’t this one of the holy grails?

we’ve known about dark matter for some years now. we have seen its effects on the rotation curves of galaxies and lensing observations. this gives a “map” of its distribution on cosmic scales for the first time. we still don’t know what it is though.

ChrispenEvan said:

we’ve known about dark matter for some years now. we have seen its effects on the rotation curves of galaxies and lensing observations. this gives a “map” of its distribution on cosmic scales for the first time. we still don’t know what it is though.

Ta

CrazyNeutrino said:

First Image Ever Of The Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe Together
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/first-image-ever-of-the-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-universe-together/

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have taken the first image ever (on the left) of the Cosmic Web that binds the Universe together. I use capitals because if there’s a Cosmic Web that connects all galaxies through the universe, it should be capitalised.

In a research paper published in Nature this Sunday, the astronomers describe how they took the image using the 10-meter telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii:

more….

> This deep image (on the left, above) shows the nebula (cyan) extending across 2 million light-years that was discovered around the bright quasar UM287 (at the center of the image). The energetic radiation of the quasar makes the surrounding intergalactic gas glow, revealing the morphology and physical properties of a cosmic web filament.

Hold your horses everyone. This is intergalactic baryonic matter, mostly neutral hydrogen. This is not dark matter. You don’t get a reflection nebula off dark matter. Intergalactic clouds have been known since the late 1960s through absorption lines in quasar spectra. But this is the first time I’ve seen them glowing.

we, well at least i, realise this isn’t DM. but it shows how DM is spread through galactic space. the show, how big is the universe, was about this as well to an extent.