We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together.

They are the cosmic voids, and they will someday grow to consume the entire universe. To understand voids, we must first have the proper perspective. And to do that, we need to zoom out beyond the ...

But what happens if we zoom out again. Well, we reach the end of greatness. This extremely poetic term summarizes a size ...

The multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS releases the largest map of the universe, going back to almost the beginning of time ...

Each time you zoom in a depth, you're magnifying the universe 10x. Every time you zoom out, the bigger objects are one-tenth of their prior size. If you zoom from the biggest object, The ...

We know that the Universe is expanding ... such as galaxies and the space between them, but if we zoom out—just like we zoom out on a smartphone with two fingers—these inhomogeneities disappear.

This Russian-nesting-doll-like distribution of matter has led them to wonder whether the universe is a fractal: a mathematical object that looks the same at any scale, whether you zoom in or out.

This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the universe. It begins with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and zooms out to reveal data from WMAP.

But when you zoom out even further, looking at chunks of the universe more than 300 million light-years wide, all that structure fades away. Past this point, the light from all the stars in the ...

Starting with zoomed-in image showcasing the deepest view of the universe that Hubble has been able to generate, the video slowly zooms out to show the full scope of Hubble’s imaging power.

If you could zoom way out and look at the universe’s big picture, says Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire in England, “it would look really smooth.” Lopez compares the ...

(Nanowerk News) “The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and ...