Ancient Wari leaders used psychedelic beer to forge alliances and expand their empire, new archaeological data suggests, revealing early social control through psychoactive substances.

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.

Located between 424 and 815 million light-years from Earth, Quipu is composed of thousands of galaxies bound by gravity. With a mass equivalent to 200 million billion suns, it represents one of the ...

Astronomers have revealed the largest known structure in the universe, which is made up of not only clusters of galaxies but also clusters of these clusters that form a gravitationally interacting ...

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 ...

Quipu has the same mass as a staggering 200,000,000,000,000,000 copies of the sun, researchers say.

Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching approximately 1.3 billion light-years long—more than ...

The researchers say that Quipu was so obvious in the data that it immediately caught their attention. Finding the largest known object in the universe isn’t just an exciting achievement, though.

Quipu is the largest structure, in terms of length, ever found in the universe. This, along with four other superstructures discovered by the researchers, contains 45% of galaxy clusters, ...