At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological Principle, by ...

“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...

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A team of scientists has found a gigantic structure in space, called the Giant Arc, that’s way too big to exist based on what we thought we knew about the universe. The cosmological principle, which ...

A cosmic megastructure more than 9 billion light years away from Earth challenges what we know about the universe. A doctoral candidate at the United Kingdom’s University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) ...

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IMAGINE you are marooned in a vast, featureless expanse. Everywhere you look, no matter how far you travel, it all looks the same. It sounds like a disturbing dream. Believe it or not, though, this is ...