The Comic Web

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500 million after after the Big Bang

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BSL Version
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• Dark matter forms a scaffolding or filamentary strands across the universe, and galaxies appear along these strands.
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• Gas falls into the halo ~ ordinary matter (hydrogen, helium) is pulled into these halos as it cools and condenses, it forms: stars, star clusters and full galaxies.
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Comic Web

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• Comic Web refers to the largest-scale structure of the Universe.
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• The Universe lies up of thin filaments (fibre), each one made of millions of galaxies and hot gas that surround huge empty space that contain nothing but clouds of hydrogen (gas) between galaxies.
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• A Comic Web-like pattern formed by gravity pulling matter into strands and nodes;
  ….– Filaments contain clusters of galaxies and hot gas.
  ….– Voids are huge, empty regions with very little matter.
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