The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...

Clusters of galaxies ... below will show you the structure of about 1,800 nearby galaxies. Our data sets have good 3-D positions for about 35,000 galaxies. Large galaxy surveys are attempting ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

It’s almost globular cluster season. One of the mysteries of our galaxy and every other, these dense groupings of up to a million stars—the most massive and oldest star clusters in the ...

and super-clusters, are firmly in dark matter's grip. American astronomer Vera Rubin played a huge role in our modern ...

Observations made of galaxy clusters ... 5% of the cluster's total mass. An estimated 80% is thought to be invisible dark matter, whose gravitational pull binds the entire structure together.

In the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, astronomers spotted the largest explosion in the universe consisting of energy equal to a ...

Largest Discovery: Quipu is the biggest structure found in the Universe. Content: Along with four other superstructures, it holds 45% of galaxy clusters, 30% of galaxies, 25% of matter, and occupies ...