Second Ultra-Large Structure Discovered in Universe Challenges Cosmological Understanding
The Big Ring, found in the same cosmological neighborhood as the Giant Arc, defies the Cosmological Principle, prompting new theories and challenging existing ones.
- Astronomer Alexia Lopez has discovered a second ultra-large structure in the universe, named the Big Ring, which is challenging our understanding of cosmology.
- The Big Ring, located 9.2 billion light-years from Earth, has a diameter of 1.3 billion light-years and a circumference of 4 billion light-years.
- The Big Ring and the previously discovered Giant Arc, both found by Lopez, are in the same cosmological neighborhood and are only 12 degrees apart in the sky.
- These structures challenge the Cosmological Principle, which assumes that the universe is homogeneous and that matter is evenly distributed in space.
- Possible explanations for these structures include Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, the passing of cosmic strings, or a departure from standard cosmological understanding.
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