Giant Arc
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title:
Giant Arc
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The Giant Arc is a large-scale structure discovered in June 2021 that spans 3.3 billion light years. The structure of galaxies exceeds the 1.2 billion light year threshold, challenging the cosmological principle that at large enough scales the universe is considered to be the same in every place (homogeneous) and in every direction (isotropic). The Giant Arc consists of galaxies, galactic clusters, as well as gas and dust. It is located 9.2 billion light-years away and stretches across roughly a
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Large-scale structure in the observable universe seen in 2021
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Arc
date created:
2021-06-14T12:50:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T22:31:49Z
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