While mapping the nearby universe, astronomers discovered the largest-known structure in the universe, about 425 million to ...

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

The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the colour of each cord ...

Cosmologists have recently announced the discovery of the largest and most massive structure discovered to date in the ...

In another shot to our cosmic ego, scientists have discovered a new superstructure, named Quipu, that stretches 1.39 billion light-years across and contains the equivalent mass of 200 quadrillion ...

The newfound structure is dubbed Quipu after an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cords. Like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex, made up of one long filament and ...

Quipu, as it is called ... the universe's large-scale structure is important for astrophysicists for a number of reasons, Böhringer told Newsweek. "When we do observational measurements to ...

The superstructure "Quipu," recently identified, spans 1.3 billion light-years, challenging our understanding of the distribution of matter in space. This discovery, resulting from a study published ...