The larger -scale structure of the known universe, which is a group of groups of galaxies and groups of galaxies groups that cover approximately 1.3 billion light years and contains a amazing 200 solar masses, astronomers.
The newly found structure is called Quipu after an Inca System of accounting and storage of numbers using knots in the cards, he reported Space.com.
Composed of a long filament and multiple side filaments such as a quipu cable, the structure is complex.
Potentially, which makes it the largest object in the universe in terms of length, it covers approximately 1.3 billion light years (more than 13,000 times the duration of the Milky Way), surpassing the holders of previous records such as the Lanikya Supercluster.
On January 31, the discovery was shared in a new article published on the ARXIV pre -protest website.
“Quipu is actually an easily notable prominent structure in the eyes on a map of the sky of the groups in the target red displacement range, without the help of a detection method,” the team wrote in the document.
In addition, research is part of a long -lasting effort to map the distribution of the matter of the universe at different wavelengths of the light.
Quipu was the largest superstructure that the researchers discovered in their data sets, but also found four more giant structures.
