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Largest structure ever found in the universe is 1.4 billion light years long (www.earth.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

Astronomers have discovered the Quipu superstructure, the largest known cosmic formation, spanning 1.4 billion light-years and containing 68 galaxy clusters.

Identified using X-ray data from the ROSAT satellite, Quipu surpasses the Sloan Great Wall and challenges assumptions about large-scale matter distribution.

The find raises questions about the cosmological principle, which suggests uniformity across vast distances.

Named after the Incan knotted recording system, Quipu highlights how massive structures shape cosmic evolution and may refine calculations of expansion rates and fundamental universe parameters.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

something something your mom something something gottem

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[...] and containing 68 galaxy clusters.

Dang, we were so close.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m sure they can find one more hiding in there somewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully just 1 more or 352 more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hehe weed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Damn. Something finally dethroned my weiner.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine how big the ruler they used to measure that was.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

(...) challenges assumptions (...)

No one else here at Lemmy has the slightest start of an hypothesis on how to go about these challenges. All they can do on this is criticize without having a clue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

(...) challenges assumptions (...)

Their "assumptions" were repeatedly "challenged" on this, yet they still "assume" the same ... it's getting quite absurd.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, there were many repeatedly challenged theories in science history that became mainstream later. This is not my field of study, so I can't judge the quality of their work, but I wouldn't ignore it just because of it being challenged. Do you have more insight? Is it obviously ridiculous or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ignorance is bliss, don't dive into this rabbit hole unless you are really, really, interested.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm always really interested, that's my life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So what did you find about this topic ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

C'mon man! No banana for scale? Are we primitive or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Am I the only one seeing an astronomically big red flag?