[Alas Babylon!]

Wow! That's a monster!

[Alas Babylon!]

This image shows the five newly discovered superstructures. Quipu (red) is the largest structure found in the local universe. The others are Shapley (blue), Serpens-Corona Borealis (green), Hercules (purple) and Sculptor-Pegasus (beige). (Image credit: Boehringer et al. / arXiv)

[ClearCase_guy]

However, the Great Wall's existence remains disputed.

"You can see it from space"

[Magnum44]

[Empire_of_Liberty]

“And then, Quipu wiped the slide dry, with his thumb, to reuse it…”

[Magnum44]

[Robert DeLong]

I tend to take these claims with a huge grain of salt, to be quite honest. But maybe. Because it’s hard to prove or disprove. Claims, however, are easy to put forth.

[exinnj]

Someone has too much time on their hands: in the meantime the shortage of plumbers threatens the nation’s core values, even when they can make up to $200K per year.

[Omnivore-Dan]

This is the sort of article MSN should stick to. Everything else they write sucks. Interesting, makes you realize how small we are. Sometime during the 60’s I was with my father tuna fishing by the Hudson Canyons. About 40 miles or so off shore. The night sky was just brilliant, the Milky Way clearly visible. Only other times I’ve seen the night sky like that was about 200 miles northwest of Montreal on a camping and fishing trip.

[nwrep]

Was this found in the universe, the Metaverse, or the multiverse?

[Carl Vehse]

"[Quipu] contains a mind-boggling 200 quadrillion solar masses"

In less mind-boggling and easier to understand units, how many dozens of Chris Christies is that?

[Carl Vehse]

"a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years across.... all detected between roughly 425 million and 815 million light-years from Earth."

Wait! If it's the center of Quipu that is roughly between 425 million and 815 million light-years from Earth, and Quipu has a radius of approximately 1/2 of 1.3 billion light-years, Earth could be inside Quipu.

[dfwgator]

Are we talking Chris Christie big?

[P.O.E.]

Maybe it’s just happy to see Mae West.

[Doctor Congo]

To make distances like this picturable in my head I think of multiples of our galaxy’s diameter. If my math is correct this 1.3B lyrs is 13,000 milkyways away.

(our galaxy is 100,000 lyrs wide, 1000 lyrs thick, and the central bulge is 10,000 lyrs thick)

[bgill]

Until they find one bigger.

[PLMerite]

“Wow! That’s a monster!”

Yeah, try not to piss it off.