First image ever of the Cosmic Web that binds the Universe together

[Chester]

First image ever of the Cosmic Web (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/first-image-ever-of-the-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-unive-1504989187) that binds the Universe together

Apologies if this has been posted.

[Freed Fox]

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This deep image (on the left, above) shows the nebula (cyan) extending across 2 million light-years that was discovered around the bright quasar UM287 (at the center of the image). The energetic radiation of the quasar makes the surrounding intergalactic gas glow, revealing the morphology and physical properties of a cosmic web filament.


Computer simulations (on the right, above) suggest that matter in the universe is distributed in a "cosmic web" of filaments, as seen in the image above from a large-scale dark-matter simulation (Bolshoi simulation, by Anatoly Klypin and Joel Primack). The inset is a zoomed-in, high-resolution image of a smaller part of the cosmic web, 10 million light-years across, from a simulation that includes gas as well as dark matter (credit: S. Cantalupo).

[panopticon]

So is this web sort of like a mass of wires (pathways) connecting circuits (galaxies)?

Very interesting about the dark galaxies as well.

-- Pan

[Ellisa]

Would this mean the Universe has boundaries and thus is not infinite--- or have I completely missed the point?

[Chester]

Would this mean the Universe has boundaries and thus is not infinite--- or have I completely missed the point?

What this said to me is that until these images, though we may have imagined the physical universe to be connected, we did not see these connections.

I then considered the same type of connectivity that is behind psi phenomena. Mainstream, topside Earth-world science has no explanation for it today. Perhaps one day it will, and in that explanation will be a proven connectivity for (as an example) thought transference. An explanation which is unrestricted by space (distance) and which also may transcend time.

So these images are inspiring to me in this way.

[DeDukshyn]

Reminds me of the filaments of potential. :) As explained in texts by Ken Carey. Creation forms along these filaments. These filaments exists everywhere - within and surrounding everything on every scale - one might say - it is the "Universe's" intentions, as a metaphor. Interesting to see picked up by advanced telescopes.

[Gardener]

Just for balance......
As above so below
Makes a lot of sense when we see that also this (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/09/first-pictures-hydrogen-bonds-unveiled-afm)