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The Origami Cosmic Web of Galaxies

The stretching and bunching-together that gravity produces in the dark-matter sheet, drawn from a computer simulation of dark-matter clustering in the Universe. The physical size of the sheet here is huge, about a billion light-years. One of the smaller clumps that forms would correspond to our Milky Way galaxy.

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