Milky Way sits like a bead on a thread in the Universe

(Above: Each dot in the large-scale structure of the universe is a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.)

Astrophysicists recently discovered an amazing fact that the entire universe resembles  bacteria in a petri dish or as I consider a neural net pathway (similar to the synapses of the human brain) as it was discovered the star clusters and galaxy clusters are formed in "threads" where stars and  galaxies are interlinked along these massive cosmic highways...

More mindblowing science here:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-29/milky-way-hangs-by-a-cosmic-t...