UArizona astronomers identify the earliest strands of the cosmic web

Artist's illustration of a quasar
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a threadlike arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the Big Bang. The structure reveals clues and questions about the fundamental architecture of the universe.

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