An astronomer team analyzed mass concentrations visible to huge distances and found at least five new mestructures composed of clusters of galaxies. The largest structure of the nearby universe so far discovered has 1.3 billion light years long and was baptized as Quipu, in honor of the Quechua culture counting system.
On a large scale, the universe seems to be organized in titanic masses of matter connected to each other. A planet belongs to a star system, which in turn is part of a galaxy. The galaxies are grouped to form clusters, which at the same time bind in supercoumus or even supercoumulous complexes. The progression of this scale probably continues, cosmologists think, but currently their observation is limited by the available instruments.
Studying supercumuli allows you to delve into the enigmas a universe, which expands rapidly and that, even so, manages to keep their galaxies together. Paradoxically, cosmic structures are not usually as evident as their lower mass counterparts. They are too large for conventional telescopes and, at the same time, little dense to distinguish a grouping pattern. Scientists often look for these structures using X -ray radiation and simulations of the behavior of galaxies.
Quipu and their sisters, the super cosmic structures
The study, which is waiting for publication in the magazine Astronomy & AstrophysicsHe points out that they have found the largest structure so far. Quipu has an approximate mass of 200 solar masses. If a ship at the speed of the light decided to travel from end to end, it would take 1.3 billion years. To put it into perspective, the Laniakea supercumulus, to which the Earth belongs, has a size of 520 million light years and is composed of approximately 100,000 galaxies.
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