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

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

Astronomers have recently discovered that the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, a massive cosmic superstructure, might be much larger and closer to Earth than previously estimated. This remarkable ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...

Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system. It contains a shocking 200 quadrillion solar masses. Astronomy is an endeavor ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a large quasar ...

This visualization of the Laniakea supercluster, which represents a collection of more than 100,000 ... More estimated galaxies spanning a volume of over 100 million light-years, shows the ...

Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It is 1.4 billion light years across and contains nearly 70 galactic superclusters. It is also hundreds of thousands of times ...

Visualization of the largest structures in the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. CREDIT NASA/University of Chicago and Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum The universe is peppered ...

On the largest scales, the Universe is ordered ... could not only confirm our theories for how the large-scale structure of the Universe has formed, but help answer questions about cosmic magnetic ...

The Shapley supercluster was one of five giant structures detected in a new study of the local universe. Previously regarded as the largest superstructure in space, it has now been eclipsed by at ...