Rotating filament (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Rotating filament

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A figure illustrating the rotation of neutral hydrogen (right) in galaxies residing in an extended filament (middle), where the galaxies exhibit a coherent bulk rotational motion tracing the large-scale cosmic web (left). Credit: Lyla Jung

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Lyla Jung

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