Researchers across the world have identified one of the largest rotation systems ever observed: a colossal cosmic filament composed of dark matter and gas, stretching over 50 million light-years. Within this structure lies a 5.5-million-light-year chain of 14 hydrogen-rich galaxies, all spinning in the same direction. The findings, published in MNRAS, mark a major shift in how scientists understand galactic evolution.

A Giant Spinning Filament Uncovered

Astronomers mapped a massive dark-matter filament located around 140 million light-years away. Along this filament, they found 14 young, gas-heavy galaxies arranged linearly, a rare alignment on its own. What shocked the team was their motion: each galaxy appeared to rotate in perfect synchrony with the filament itself. Even the galaxies

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