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.
Previous research suggested that after the universe was born in the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago, much of the gas that makes up most of the known matter of the cosmos collapsed to form colossal sheets.