New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a ...

According to our best understanding, the universe should be homogeneous at large scales. This means that it's ok to have ...

Gamma-ray bursts have revealed that the largest structure in the universe, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, is bigger ...

For context, that is large enough to fit over 94,000 Milky ... if scientists want to draw accurate conclusions about the structure of the universe, misidentification of GRB origin positions ...

According to our best understanding, the universe should be homogeneous ... We do not hypothesize what this large structure might represent, other than commenting that it does not appear to ...

The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis ... For context, that is large enough to fit over 94,000 Milky Way galaxies placed side by side along the Great Wall's longest ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

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