With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure highlighted in the study, the Shapley supercluster, which had previously held the ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.

Quipu, for example, though currently significant, is not cosmologically permanent. The universe is continuously expanding, slowly tearing apart these enormous clusters over the course of billions of ...

Quipu means knot in Quechua ... Then each knot on a cord designated a syllable of the word represented at the head of the cord. For example, the name of Pachacamac, god of earth and time, was divided ...

According to the scientists on the team, the discovery was made by ROAST, a German-operated satellite telescope, and the superstructure has been named "Quipu." Quipu is estimated to span an ...

Then there's Quipu, the newly discovered cosmic structure that contains 70 linked superclusters and spans 1.4 billion lightyears across the darkness of space. The structure was discovered by a ...

for example the study of the environmental dependence of galaxy evolution as well as for precision tests of cosmological models.” The name Quipu—a reference to the textile-based recording ...

Previously regarded as the largest superstructure in space, it has now been eclipsed by at least four others, including Quipu. | Credit: ESA & Planck Collaboration / Rosat/ Digitised Sky Survey ...

After an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cards, the newly found structure is dubbed Quipu, reported Space.com. Made up of one long filament and multiple side filaments ...