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fromFuturism
16 hours ago

Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space

A 5.5-million-light-year, razor-thin string of 14 galaxies exhibits coherent rotation within a 50-million-light-year filament, indicating large-scale spin alignment influenced by dark matter.
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures EVER found

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line through the cosmos. These galaxies are studded throughout a vast filament of gas and dark matter, which is turning on its central axis like a giant cosmic 'rolling pin'. The researchers say that this filament, and the hundreds of galaxies inside it, is spinning at speeds over 246,000 miles per hour (396,000 km/s).
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