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

Scientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the ...

Quipu, for example, though currently significant, is not cosmologically permanent. The universe is continuously expanding, slowly tearing apart these enormous clusters over the course of billions of ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

Quipu is the largest structure we've ever found ... "Interesting follow-up research on our findings includes, for example, studies of the influence of these environments on the galaxy population ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast cosmic formation named "Quipu," spanning 1.3 billion light-years. The structure is ...

Either way, in addition to the inherent excitement of getting to study the largest “things” ever, analyzing superstructures ...

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

For decades, scientists have worked to map the universe’s large-scale structure, testing cosmological models and ...