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Jilly_in_VA

(10,886 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 12:57 PM Jan 2024

Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos

Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire have discovered a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space.

It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter and appears to be roughly 15 times the size of the Moon in the night sky as seen from Earth.
Named the Big Ring by the astronomers, it is made up of galaxies and galaxy clusters.
They say that it is so big it challenges our understanding of the universe.
It cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is really distant and identifying all the galaxies that make up the bigger structure has taken a lot of time and computing power.
Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe.
Although stars, planets and galaxies are huge clumps of matter in our eyes, in the context of the size of the universe they are insignificant - and the theory is that much bigger patches of matter should not form.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67950749

Ha! "Should not form"--according to out puny thinking!

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Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2024 OP
there has been a lot of changeing everything lately going on. :):):):) AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 #1
Our concept... 2naSalit Jan 2024 #2
Maybe some super-galactic farmer doing corn rows in a circle? erronis Jan 2024 #3

erronis

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3. Maybe some super-galactic farmer doing corn rows in a circle?
Fri Jan 12, 2024, 08:53 PM
Jan 2024

You know - if I was a god-type universe-creating person, I think I'd like to have some fun every now and then.

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