At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most cherished assumptions about how the universe is built. The “Big Ring,” a ...

A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological Principle, by ...

The Milky Way galaxy in which our solar system lies may exist in a "giant void", where space is about a fifth as dense as the universal average. This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from ...

A mysterious ultra-large structure discovered in space may challenge our understanding of the cosmos, according to a new study The structure dubbed the "Big Ring on the Sky" lies around 9.2 billion ...

Astronomers have discovered a colossal cosmic structure that’s so big it threatens to undermine our entire understanding of the universe. The Big Ring spans about 3% of the radius of the entire ...

“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...

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The discovery of a second ultra-large structure in the remote universe has further challenged some of the basic assumptions about cosmology. The Big Ring in the Sky is 9.2 billion light-years from ...