A mysterious cosmic twine cuts through the heart of the Milky Way. The string has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2016. Now an image with the highest-ever resolution of the strange strand ...

This article was previously misattributed. The correct attribution is Brian Koberlein from One Universe at a Time. We regret our error. A cosmic string is a very long ...

Physicists in the US and Singapore are the first to use light from distant galaxies to perform a systematic search for cosmic strings — massive structures that may have been created just after the Big ...

Cosmic strings, hypothetical remnants of the early moments of the Universe, are at the heart of a study conducted by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan. These ...

One of the strangest ideas about the nature of the universe could be one of the most important. Do long, thin, and incredibly dense strands of matter called cosmic strings wind their way throughout ...

Remember that time in the Lord of the Rings lore when the dwarves of Moria dug too greedily and too deep, unearthing the Balrog, an ancient horror not meant to roam free in the modern age? Cosmic ...

Why haven’t scientists been able to provide proof of the “Cosmic Strings” that they claim surround the universe? A new theory suggests that it’s because the strings have broken and gotten lost in time ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- For astronomers, understanding what happened in the early moments of the universe could answer many questions in physics and astronomy. One possible player in the early universe is ...

Traces of vast cosmic strings have been found in radiation from the early universe, a controversial new study says. If confirmed to exist, cosmic strings could offer an unprecedented window into the ...

Astronomers have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe. Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, ...