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A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers


About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure in the universe which has confounded astronomers.

It is the second giant structure found by teams led by Alexia Lopez, an astronomer at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. “BAOs arise from oscillations in the early universe and today should appear, statistically at least, as spherical shells in the arrangement of galaxies. Yet, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc are two huge structures and are even cosmological neighbours, which is extraordinarily fascinating,” Lopez says.

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