With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Ranging from the unimaginably small to the unimaginably big, the scale of the universe is mind-boggling. Watch to try to wrap your head around it. Produced by Alex Kuzoian. Follow BI Video ...

Frontier, the second fastest supercomputer in the world, used dark matter and the movement of gas and plasma rather than just ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

Let me demonstrate how they should be spaced out with a scale model of my own.' DALLASNow our sun is a fairly average-sized star, there's much bigger stars than ours in the universe, so let's ...

Discover Quipu, the universe's largest known structure, spanning 1.3 billion light-years and containing 200 quadrillion solar ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.