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Originally posted by zonetripper2065
Awesome, but thats not a structure. It's more of an object?
Originally posted by zonetripper2065
reply to post by wildespace
Isnt a structure like manufactured by design? the title mislead me.
The coloured background indicates the peaks and troughs in the occurrence of quasars at the distance of the LQG. Darker colours indicate more quasars, lighter colours indicate fewer quasars. The LQG is clearly seen as a long chain of peaks indicated by black circles. (The red crosses mark the positions of quasars in a different and smaller LQG). The horizontal and vertical axes represent right ascension and declination, the celestial equivalent of longitude and latitude. The map covers around 29.4 by 24 degrees on the sky, indicating the huge scale of the newly discovered structure. Credit: R. G. Clowes / UCLan
Dr Clowes said: "While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this LQG, we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe. This is hugely exciting – not least because it runs counter to our current understanding of the scale of the universe.
PHYS.org Article
The currently accepted Cosmological Principle, based on the work of Albert Einstein, suggests that the largest structures we should be able to find would be about 370 megaparsecs across (more than 1.2 billion light-years). The newly found quasar group is 1,200 megaparsecs across, a distance that would take four billion years to cross at the speed of light.
Originally posted by daynj1736
Just on a side note.....anyone ever wonder if our universe is just an atom that makes up some other being? Sort of like in Men in Black where they are looking for that universe or world and its on the collar of a cat? I mean everything is perspective.
Originally posted by nolabel
That is truly astounding.
With all these new discoveries practically everyday it won't be long before they announce they have found extraterrestrial life somewhere.
What exciting times we live in.
S&F
Originally posted by abeverage
Accordingly that object should not exist...time to re-write some science...
Originally posted by Phantasm
The structure is a large quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous galactic nuclei powered by supermassive central black holes.