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Galactic 'bridges' could be the largest rotating structures ever discovered. Astronomers have uncovered evidence that cosmic filaments – tendrils of matter that stretch across hundreds of millions of light years – are also spinning. Rotation on such gigantic scales has never been observed before.


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