Distant quasar illuminates a filament of the cosmic web
Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led the study, published January 19 in Nature.