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Old December 27th 13, 07:09 AM posted to sci.physics,sci.astro
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Another largest structure in the Universe?

Just after they discovered a structure in the universe what was 4
billion light-years long, now they've discovered one that's 10 billion
light-years long! Pop goes the Cosmological Principle!

Yousuf Khan

"Until now, the largest known structure in the Universe was the Huge-LQG (Large Quasar Group), a cluster of 73 quasars stretching over a distance of 4 billion light years. Now astronomers say they've spotted something even bigger in data from gamma ray bursts, the final explosions of energy released by stars as they die and the universe's most energetic events. Astronomers have measured the distance to 283 of these bursts and mapped their position in the universe. This throws up a surprise. At a distance of ten billion light years, there are more gamma ray bursts than expected if they were evenly distributed throughout the universe. This implies the existence of a structure at this distance that is about ten billion light years across and so dwarfs the Huge-LQG. What's odd about the discovery is that the Cosmological principle--one of the fundamental tenets of cosmology--holds that the distribution of matter in the universe will appear uniform if viewed at a large enough scale. An

d yet, structures clearly emerge at every scale astronomers can see. The new discovery doesn't disprove the principle but it does provide some interesting food for thought for theorists."

Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe - Slashdot
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13...n-the-universe

Astronomers Discover Largest Structure in the Universe — The Physics
arXiv Blog — Medium
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/267ddcb8057b
 




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