The Big Ring is centered close to 0 on the x-axis, and spans roughly from –650 to +650, equivalent to about 1.37 billion light years across.

Stranger still, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc were discovered in the same region of sky, at around the same distance – 9.2 billion light-years from Earth.

The Big Ring is not a BAO. BAOs are all a fixed size of around 1 billion light-years in diameter. And thorough inspection of the Big Ring shows that it is more like a corkscrew shape that is ...

However, the Big Ring, along with a handful of other gigantic cosmic structures such as the Sloan Great Wall, and a vast collection of galaxies called The Giant Arc, which was discovered by Lopez ...

Scientists have discovered a giant ring-shaped structure in space, dubbed the Big Ring. The discovery challenges our understanding of the universe. The scientist who discovered it said it felt ...

Scientists have found a vast megastructure in space that appears to challenge our understanding of the universe.. The ultra-large structure of galaxies – named the Big Ring, and stretching 1.3 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of Uranus, detailing the ice giant's ring system, its brightest moons and its zestful atmosphere.. The observation, made Feb. 6, comes on ...

The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region. The galaxy cluster ...

The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid, a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies.

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The Big Ring only deepens the mystery. "Neither of these two ultra-large structures is easy to explain in our current understanding of the universe," Lopez said in January .