Galaxies in the universe gather into clusters and interconnected filamentary structures with voids in between, forming the “cosmic web”. Over time, gravity draws matter together, making the filamentary structures more distinct.
A group of global scientists recently discovered a new carbon compound in space using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This groundbreaking discovery of methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system called d203-506 is the first of its kind and is significant as it assists in the formation of more complex carbon-based molecules.
An international team of astrophysicists has made a new discovery in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the 1980s, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh from Northwestern University discovered one-dimensional filaments near Sagittarius A*, the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. Yusef-Zadeh and his collaborators have now discovered a new population of filaments.