Untangling the Cosmic Web | The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
By gauging the “intrinsic alignment” of galaxies, PhD student and Harvard Horizons Scholar Clare Lamman enables astronomers to get a better understanding of the universe and how it evolves.
@jbnjbx I'm not sure what you're describing... but in a sense, large-scale structure is the result of the "butterfly effect" : tiny perturbations in the early universe have grown to the massive structures we observe today.