# The cosmic web

On the largest scales galaxies are not scattered evenly. They gather along filaments and sheets around huge empty voids, like a web. Gravity grew this pattern from tiny differences in the early universe.

Connects to:
- [The expanding universe](https://mapideas.org/i/as_expansion)
- [Lives of stars](https://mapideas.org/i/as_stars)
- [Symmetry](https://mapideas.org/i/mat_symmetry)
- [What is dark matter?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_astro_dark)
- [What shapes the web’s threads?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_astro_threads)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Galaxy filament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament)
- [Wikipedia: Large-scale structure of the universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_structure_of_the_universe)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/as_web · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#as_web