By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our understanding of how the cosmos is built.

Astronomers have recently discovered that the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, a massive cosmic superstructure, might be ...

Astronomers have spotted something that appears to stretch around ten billion light years across. This so-called ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made its public debut with a series of breathtaking images. Among them was an ethereal ...

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

The contender for the largest known structure in the universe, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall (or Great Wall, for short), might be even larger than scientists had previously thought.

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion of the universe at large." ...

The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models of the universe due to its incredibly vast size — and now, using the ...

Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still out on what it all means.' News By Robert Lea published 24 April 2025 ...