{"id":226481,"date":"2025-12-04T01:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/astronomers-find-vast-spinning-filament-of-galaxies-140-million-light-years-away"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:32:45","slug":"astronomers-find-vast-spinning-filament-of-galaxies-140-million-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/astronomers-find-vast-spinning-filament-of-galaxies-140-million-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find vast spinning filament of galaxies 140 million light-years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-vast-spinning-filament-of-galaxies-140-million-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a \u201crazor-thin\u201d string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article-lookup\/doi\/10.1093\/mnras\/staf2005\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/i><\/a>, could offer valuable new insights into how galaxies formed in the early universe.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic filaments are the largest known structures in the universe: vast, thread-like formations of galaxies and dark matter that form a cosmic scaffolding. They also act as \u201chighways\u201d along which matter and momentum flow into galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a \u201crazor-thin\u201d string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away. The findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, could offer valuable new insights into how galaxies formed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}