Sentences with phrase «along the filament»

Discovered in 2003 and located about 5.4 billion light - years away, it involves four distinct clusters of galaxies converging along a filament of galaxies, gas clouds, and, mainly, dark matter that's about 13.5 million light - years long.

Later, these galactic building blocks streamed along filaments into connecting nodes, where clusters and superclusters of galaxies formed.

If you look closely at these computer models you see free - flowing gas, smaller galaxies and dark matter all streaming along these filaments together.

Webb will show us whether the first galaxies formed along filaments and webs of dark matter, as expected, and when.

VIRTUAL UNIVERSE In a snapshot from the Illustris computer simulation of the universe, galaxies (pink) cluster along filaments of dark matter (blue).

Muscles contract because the muscle protein myosin uses its flexible head to ratchet its long tail along the filament of another muscle protein actin, dragging the ends of muscle cells inward.

The material in this web can feed along the filaments into galaxies and drive their growth and evolution.

This protein's unusual ability to walk in both directions along the filament makes this possible.

And massive clusters of galaxies ought to be strung along filaments of dark matter, like pearls on a chain.

ESO 137 - 001, a galaxy 200 million light - years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe, drags along filaments of gas and stars as it plows through the cluster.

So, if the quasars are in a long filament then the spins of the central black holes will point along the filament.

Tanimura and de Graaff separately figured that there should be more distortion along the filaments than in empty space.

One of his most spectacular arachnid inspired installations, Galaxy Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web was exhibited at the Italian Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009.

The gas that collapses to form galaxies and stars traces the distribution of dark matter and extends beyond the galaxies along the filaments of the cosmic web.