The largest structure of the scale of the known universe, which is a group of clusters of galaxies and clusters of clusters of galaxies which extends over around 1.3 billion light years and contains a solar mass Storage 200 quadrillions, may have been discovered by astronomers.
The newly found structure is nicknamed Enipu after an Incan system for counting and storing numbers using cards on the cards, reported Space.com.
Composed of a long filament and several lateral filaments such as a quipu cord, the structure is complex.
Potentially making it the largest object of the universe in terms of length, it extends over around 1.3 billion light years (more than 13,000 times the duration of the Milky Way), beating previous record holders such as the Laniākea SuperCluster.
On January 31, the discovery was shared in a new document published on the Arxiv preparation website.
“Quipu is actually a prominent structure easily visible to the eye in a heaven of the clusters in the target range of lag to red, without the help of a detection method,” wrote the team in the newspaper .
In addition, research is part of a long -standing effort to map the distribution of matter from the universe to different light wavelengths.
Quipu was the greatest superstructure that researchers discovered in their data sets, but they also found four other giant structures.
