filament

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"I was surprised by how long and how narrow this filament is," said one of the authors, Xiaohui Fan, in a statement.

From Salon

In addition to measuring the BAO yardstick, Euclid’s spectroscopic survey can chronicle how gravity pulled clusters of galaxies into sheets and filaments over time, forming the cosmic web.

From Science Magazine

Editor’s Note: Yusef-Zadeh explains that these long, vertical filaments turned out to be made of synchrotron radiation, which is produced by particles moving at nearly the speed of light through a magnetic field.

From Scientific American

The Titan is made of “titanium and filament wound carbon fiber” and has proven to “withstand the enormous pressures of the deep ocean,” OceanGate stated.

From Seattle Times

Astronomers have detected a new set of whiskers on the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy: filaments of radio energy a few light-years long, and streaming outward along the galactic plane.

From New York Times