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 mild years throughout and incorporates almost 70 galactic superclusters. Additionally it is a whole lot of hundreds of instances extra huge than a single galaxy, such because the Milky Means.
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 created from knotted rope. B…
