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

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

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 ...

This early state included small, Gaussian, and nearly scale-invariant ... a symmetric universe. Beyond theoretical physics, the implications of this model could revolutionize our understanding ...

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.

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