The largest structure of the well -known universe, which is a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters spanning approx. 1.3 billion light years and contains an astonishing 200 quadrillion sun masses may have been discovered by astronomers.
The newly found structure is called quipu after an incan system with counting and storing numbers using knots on cards, reported Space.com.
The structure consists of a long filament and several side filaments such as a Quipu line, and is complex.
Potentially make it the largest object in the universe in terms of length, it spans approx. 1.3 billion light years (more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way), which beats former record holders such as Laniākea Supercluster.
On January 31, the discovery was divided into a new paper that was sent on the pre -printing site Arxiv.
“Quipu is actually a prominent structure that can easily be seen by eye on a sky map of clusters in the target Redshift Range without the help of a detection method,” the team wrote in the paper.
In addition, research is part of a long -term effort to map the case’s distribution of the universe at different wavelengths of light.
Quipu was the largest superstructure that the researchers discovered in their data sets, but they also found four more giant structures.
