SPACE
Universe’s largest spinning structures found
Words by Charles Q. Choi
Tendrils of galaxies up to hundreds of millions of light years long may be the largest spinning objects in the entire universe. Celestial bodies often spin, from planets to stars to galaxies However, giant clusters of galaxies often spin very slowly – if at all. So many researchers thought that is where the spinning might end on a cosmic scale, according to Noam Libeskind, a cosmologist at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam in Germany.