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Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out
A new study presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological ...
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Exploring the Universe’s True Shape: New Study Proposes Challenges to the Cosmological Principle
A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...
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Meet Quipu, the largest object in the Universe
Astronomers have discovered what is believed to be the largest structure in the universe, more than 1.4 billion light-years across and containing seventy galactic superclusters. Our solar system is a ...
Astronomers just found the largest known object in the entire universe
Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.
Supercomputer simulations of giant radio galaxy formation challenge current theoretical models
Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...