Astronomers just found the largest known object in the entire universe
Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.
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Meet Quipu, the largest object in the Universe
Astronomers have discovered what is believed to be the largest structure in the universe, more than 1.4 billion light-years across and containing seventy galactic superclusters. Our solar system is a ...
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Exploring the Universe’s True Shape: New Study Proposes Challenges to the Cosmological Principle
A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...
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Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out
A new study presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological ...
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Gravitational Lenses: Key to Universal Behavior?
The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility," explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western ...
Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Weak gravitational lensing could provide an answer
A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption ...