Artist’s illustration of the large-scale structure of the universe
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Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It contains nearly 70 galactic superclusters and is hundreds of thousands of times more massive than a single galaxy, like the Milky Way. It’s so large, it would take 1.4 billion light years to traverse.
Hans Boehringer at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany and his colleagues have named this cosmic structure Quipu after an Incan counting system made from…
