An artist's impression of the size and location of the Big Ring (blue) and Giant Arc (red) in the sky. (University of Central Lancashire/Stellarium) A massive structure detected in the distant ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.

The largest known structure in the Universe may be even larger than the large we thought it was. A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona ...

Radio image of Porphyrion. (Martijn Oei, Caltech/LOFAR Collaboration) There are plenty of mind-bendingly large structures in ...

The universe is expanding faster every second, and physicists still can’t fully explain why. A new study connects the force binding quarks together to the mystery of dark energy. Upcoming telescopes ...

An international study led by astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date. The study has also produced the ...

If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of ...

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a ...

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Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not likely. In practical terms? Definitely not. Extremely large objects can ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies and quasars and 19 million stars. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, an assistant ...

A new JCAP study tests an “emulator” to reconstruct the large-scale structure of the cosmos If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together ...