{"id":76933,"date":"2025-12-08T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=76933"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:48:22","slug":"cosmic-filament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cosmic-filament\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Filament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Cosmic Filament Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the University of Oxford researchers reported a roughly 50-million-lightyear-long cosmic Filament traced by at least 14 galaxies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Cosmic Filament<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cosmic or galaxy filaments are the largest \u2018<\/span><b>threads\u2019 in the universe\u2019s cosmic web.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Size:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A single cosmic filament is a structure spanning <\/span><b>hundreds of millions of lightyears.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These filaments are <\/span><b>the largest known structures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Universe which are vast, thread-like formations of galaxies and dark matter that form a <\/span><b>cosmic scaffolding.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These cosmic web filaments serve as the nurseries <\/span><b>where galaxies grow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by accreting pristine gas that fuels their star formation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Formation<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is formed as a result of <\/span><b>gravity pulling in gas, dark matter, and galaxies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into long, thin strands that link giant clusters of galaxies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These filaments also surround large, <\/span><b>empty regions of space called voids.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A filament forms where sheets of matter intersect and collapse; they\u2019re also highways along which gas and smaller galaxies \u2018flow\u2019 towards big clusters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These filaments help <\/span><b>decide where galaxies form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, how fast they grow, and how much fresh gas they receive over billions of years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-are-cosmic-filaments\/article70368437.ece#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Filaments are the largest \u2018threads\u2019 in the universe\u2019s cosmic web. 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