With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters containing an astonishing 200 quadrillion solar ...

Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system. It contains a shocking 200 quadrillion solar masses. Astronomy is an endeavor ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest-scale structure in the known universe (Representative picture). Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe.

Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching ...

Back in the old days, astronomers would conduct galaxy surveys by taking deep space images on photographic plates and then measuring ... look like according to the standard model of cosmology (which ...

Physicists have performed a simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...