Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Thanks to a space telescope that has been switched off for more than 25 years, a research group has identified a gigantic ...

For their study, the scientists used an almost complete atlas of galaxy clusters in the nearby universe. “The catalogue was created with the help of the ROSAT X-ray satellite, built by Max Planck ...

The filament connects two galaxies that date back to when the universe was a youthful 2 billion ... Bicocca and lead author of the study, in a Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics release.

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure highlighted in the study, the Shapley supercluster, which had previously held the ...

Data from the Esa Euclid telescope enable precise analysis of an Einstein ring around the galaxy core of NGC 6505 and thus the surrounding dark ...

A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that ...

with Hans Böhringer from the Max Planck Institute in Munich as the lead author. Quipu is the largest structure, in terms of length, ever found in the universe. This, along with four other ...

"They are special cosmic messengers that reveal the secrets of the most energetic phenomena in the universe," adds Rosa Coniglione ... these energetic phenomena,” says Yuri Kovalev of the Max Planck ...