By mapping the motion of galaxies in huge filaments that connect the cosmic web, astronomers at the AIP, in collaboration with scientists in China and Estonia, have found that these long tendrils of galaxies spin on enormous scales never seen before.
https://t.co/lX9BTnCnwD
Spinning filament write up in vice.
Vast Strands In the Cosmic Web That Connects the Universe Are Spinning, Scientists Find https://t.co/7bhYw44MEo via @vice
What is the biggest thing in the Universe that spins? We measured cosmic rotation on unprecedented scales by looking at the motion of galaxies in cosmic filaments. With @pengwang_astro
https://t.co/DMC6xJYlrm
#lonely# on my way back to Potsdam from Frankfurt, after sending my wife and 2.5 years old daughter back to China. We will separate for at least 9 months. Lonely fill my heart. Damn COVID-19! Hope they safe on the way back to China.