{"id":793436,"date":"2025-02-07T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793436"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T19:18:09","slug":"astronomers-have-spotted-the-largest-known-object-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793436","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Artist\u2019s illustration of the large-scale structure of the universe<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Science Photo Library\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It contains nearly 70 galactic superclusters and is hundreds of thousands of times more massive than a single galaxy, like the Milky Way. It\u2019s so large, it would take 1.4 billion light years to traverse.<\/p>\n<p>Hans Boehringer at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany and his colleagues have named this cosmic structure Quipu after an Incan counting system made from\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2467487-astronomers-have-spotted-the-largest-known-object-in-the-universe\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u2019s illustration of the large-scale structure of the universe Science Photo Library\/Alamy Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It contains nearly 70 galactic superclusters and is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}