Artist’s representation of a galaxy with a brilliant quasar at its centre
NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI)
Space-time, the so-called fabric of physical reality, may be made of tiny, discrete pieces stitched together. A preliminary analysis of the way matter orbits quasars suggests we could find evidence of this cosmic quilt in the universeâ€s most extreme neighbourhoods.
Much of the understanding we have of the make-up of our universe comes from probing matter at smaller and smaller scales. Think of fluids, says Jonathan Gorard…
