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Largest Object in the Universe Discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-big-twinkie dept.

prostoalex writes "Quick, think of the largest object you can imagine. Whatever your imagination delivered it probably wasn't an 'enormous amoeba-like structure 200 light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas,' a newly found object, as USA Today reports."

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  1. That's 200 Million, not 200 Light Years by nincehelser · · Score: 5, Informative

    But what's a few orders of magnitude among friends?

  2. Submission is wrong by nefele · · Score: 5, Informative

    First of all, the structure is 200 million light years across. The distance from the Sun to the center of our Galaxy is about 26,000 light years, so 200 light years would not be very impressive in comparison.

    Also, the article is somewhat misleading itself, as the blob isn't really a homogenous structure. It's just a group of galaxies packed together more closely than other clusters. So it isn't really that much different from other parts of the Universe.

  3. Press release by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... and here's the actual press release for the discovery in case you want some more meat than given by the simplified USA Today article.

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