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.

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 ...

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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 ...

The Big Ring galaxies are 1.3 billion light-years in diametre. In the vast expanse of the cosmos, a monumental structure challenges our understanding of the universe's evolution. Astronomers have ...

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.

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 .