A group of US researchers has been able to see the gas strands that are considered to hold the universe in a cosmic web. It has happened for the first time that the cosmic web has been seen.

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, were of the view that in order to come across this magnificent finding, they have used the Keck I Telescope in Hawaii.

The 32-foot telescope has led the researchers to find a distant illuminating nebula of diffuse gas, which was said to be extending across intergalactic space.

Lead author Sebastiano Cantalupo said, "This is a very exceptional object: it's huge, at least twice as large as any nebula detected before, and it extends well beyond the galactic environment of the quasar".

Cantalupo shared that they were benefitted from a feature of the quasar and that was its light was similar to a flashlight beam. This flashlight pointed towards the nebula, which further made the gas glow.

If to go as per the traditional cosmological model of the structure of the universe, galaxies are present in a cosmic web of matter and the certain parts of the web are not visible. Around 80% of the same is invisible dark matter.