Some absolutely enormous structures have been found in the distant universe, but even closer to us there are gargantuan ones. Meet Quipu. Quipu is a structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years.

Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system. It contains a shocking 200 quadrillion solar masses. Astronomy is an endeavor ...

The object so massive that, in the words of one scientist, it will change astronomy's "current understanding of the scale of the universe." The structure is a large quasar group, a collection of ...

This creates a twisting structure that resembles a cosmic honeycomb. "On the grandest scales, the universe resembles a cosmic web of matter surrounding empty voids – and these walls are the ...

enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of the cosmos—to reveal that the largest-known structure in the universe may be even larger than previously thought. The structure is the ...

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant ...

An international team of scientists has discovered the biggest known structure in the universe—and it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light 4 billion years to cross it.

Astronomers may have found the largest-scale structure in the known universe, which is a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans across roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...

Understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe came first from discovering the distribution of galaxies at large scales, and it is a relatively recent discovery. It was only in the ...

We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable universe. Yet, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc are two huge structures and are even cosmological neighbours, which is ext ...