In a monumental discovery, astronomers identified the largest known structure in the universe, dubbed 'Quipu' after the ancient Incan recording and counting system. The revelations of space were ...

The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the colour of each cord ...

Scientists have discovered Quipu, the largest structure in the universe. Made up of multiple galaxy clusters, this structure creates a vast cosmic superstructure that spans 1.3 billion light years.

The newfound structure is dubbed Quipu after an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cords. Like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex, made up of one long filament and ...

A preprint is available on the arXiv server. Quipu was named after the knotted cords used as recording devices by the Inca Empire and other South American cultures. It resembles those cords ...

Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...

but even ancient civilizations kept records. While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used something called quipu which encoded ...

The name Quipu was borrowed from a counting system from the ancient Incan Empire that involved knotted ropes, similar to the structure of Quipu (just swap out ropes for massive galaxies ...

Scientists noted that the newly discovered structure resembles an ancient script ... similarity led to its name “Quipu,” which is derived from the Incan word for knot. The scientists also ...