Artist’s illustration of the large-scale construction of the universe
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Astronomers have discovered the biggest recognized construction within the universe. It’s 1.4 billion gentle years throughout and comprises practically 70 galactic superclusters. It is usually a whole lot of 1000’s of instances extra huge than a single galaxy, such because the Milky Manner.
Hans Böhringer on the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, and his colleagues have named this cosmic construction Quipu after an Incan counting system constructed from knotted rope. B…
