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As of May 2026: Lead institution on the Nature paper

On May 16, 2026, Davide Tornotti and an international team published the sharpest direct image of a cosmic web filament. The strand stretches 3 million light-years, linking two galaxies with active supermassive black holes as they appeared 12 billion years ago.

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