{"id":8501,"date":"2020-12-18T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T10:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2020-12-18T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T10:50:08","slug":"theories-on-the-evolution-of-our-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/theories-on-the-evolution-of-our-universe\/8501\/","title":{"rendered":"The discovery of a gas filament confirms theories on the evolution of our Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
More than half of the matter in our Universe is yet to be observed. Astrophysicists suspect that this matter is located in so-called filaments, unfathomably large thread-like structures of hot gas that surround and connect galaxies and galaxy clusters<\/a>. A team led by the University of Bonn has now for the first time observed a gas filament with a length of 50 million light years. Its structure is similar to the predictions of computer simulations, therefore, the observation also confirms existing models and theories regarding the evolution of our Universe.<\/p>\n Following the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe expanded at breakneck speed and a gigantic gas cloud in which matter was almost uniformly distributed. In some parts the cloud was a bit denser than in others and for this reason, there are planets, stars and galaxies today. This is because the denser areas exerted slightly higher gravitational forces, which drew the gas from their surroundings towards them. More and more matter therefore concentrated at these regions over time. The space between them, however, became emptier and emptier.<\/p>\n Over the course of 13 billion years, a sponge structure developed: large holes without any matter, with areas in between where thousands of called galaxy clusters formed. If this theory is correct, the galaxies and clusters should still be connected by remnants of this gas, like the threads of a spider web.<\/p>\nUnderstanding the space between galaxy clusters<\/h3>\n