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Scientists Intrigued by Galactic Structure That's 1.4 Billion Light-Years Wide
Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure," which spans a mind-boggling 1.4 billion light-years.
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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe
The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe ...
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An Enormous, Branching String of Galaxy Clusters Is the Largest Known Structure in the Universe, Scientists Say
“The Quipu superstructure, end to end, is slightly longer than the Sloan Great Wall,” J. Richard Gott III, an astrophysicist at Princeton University who did not participate in the ...
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The Biggest Known Structure In The Universe And How Far It Is From Earth
And, before the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall was discovered, the largest known cosmic filament was the Sloan Great Wall at 1.3 billion light-years across. Read the original article on ...