Is it possible to understand the universe without ... is a number so large it's rarely encountered. And if Quipu's extremely large mass doesn't garner attention, its size surely does.

This breaks the size record of all reliably measured cosmic structures. The largest of them so far, the “Sloan Great Wall”, for example, has a length of around 1.1 billion light years and it is ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

Earth may be huge to us, but it's only a tiny part of our Milky Way Galaxy, which is just a small part of the universe. In fact, the biggest structure ... of its size, it helps to know how the ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest ... of the universe on the measurements," the authors wrote.. The scientists added that while the superstructure was massive in size currently, it would ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory recently used the second-fasted supercomputer in the world to create the ...

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 ...