IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Astronomers discovered a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy clusters, with a mass ten times that of the Milky Way. 🔭 The discovery was made using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and JAXA’s Suzaku X-ray space telescopes, overcoming challenges of detecting faint filaments. 🕸️ This finding sheds light on … Continue reading “We Never Thought It Could Be This Huge”: Astronomers Stunned by 10-Milky-Way-Sized Gas Thread Connecting Distant Galaxies