[Jewbacca]

I just read the title of this article aloud while we wait for the trainees to come in.

His response was “Largest Object — your mom”.

Don’t know why I am laughing at this.

[monkeyshine]

I hope it’s revolving and not actually rotating else we got more than meteors to worry about.

[LIConFem]

Space is kewl. But weird.

[BitWielder1]

Umbilical cords?

[Pollard]

So that’s how the aliens are getting here

[Eddie01]

I had a galactic filament once.

[fruser1]

This just means we are being flushed down the cosmological toilet.

[Retrofitted]

Well, that’s just plain neat! And to make a comment very few will understand but is most appropriate and the first thought that popped into my head: “Looks like this is Steve Ditko’s universe and we’re just living in it!”

Thanks for posting this!

[Larry Lucido]

Double helix in the sky tonight
Throw out the hardware
Let’s do it right
Aja
When all my dime dancin’ is through
I run to you

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Isn’t Dark matter theoretical? If so how do they know “Galaxies reside... on a backbone of dark matter”.

[Boogieman]

“Galaxies reside in filaments hundreds of millions of light-years long, on a backbone of dark matter.”

BS, the filaments are plasma, not dark matter.

[Magnum44]

Is that the Kessel Run?

[antidemoncrat]

“These massive filaments are rotating, and this kind of rotation on such a massive scale has never been seen before.”

Did Einstein’s theory of relativity predict anything like these?

[Dead Corpse]

These are the largest objects we’ve ever seen spinning, and that means that angular momentum can take place on a massive scale. One of the mysteries in cosmology is how that angular momentum is generated on such a massive scale since there was no primordial rotation in the early Universe.

When your fundamental assumptions are wrong... Everything else goes downhill from there. Same for "dark" matter and energy. These are theoretical constructs used to patch holes in the math.

[Disambiguator]

They look like Birkeland Currents, from the less popular electric universe model.

[sit-rep]

That’s a pretty long one mister!!

[fwdude]

When I really want to scare myself, I imagine some rogue planet that got flung out of a system and is in the middle of one of the “voids,” absent any parent star. How dark and hopeless that would be (not to mention extremely cold.)

[devane617]

They are blood vessels that belong to a huge creature and we’re floating around inside.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Uh oh...human brain cells:

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What’s the rotational speed in RPM?