Discover the largest celestial object cluster in the universe

A quasar group forms the largest structure in the universe with a length of up to 4 billion light-years.

Roger Clowes, an astronomer from the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, and colleagues discovered the largest quasar group known to man, Space reported.

Illustration of a quasar, the brightest celestial object in the universe. (Photo: Space)

Quasars are black holes that are absorbing matter from the surrounding space. Their brightness is much larger than galaxies. In fact, quasars are the brightest celestial bodies in the universe.

"This quintile is so big that they challenge the modern hypothesis about the universe. Although it is impossible to measure the size of the group, we can still confirm with certainty that they are the largest structure we have ever seen. in the whole universe, "the team claims.

Astronomers have long known that quasars tend to clump into large groups, with widths that can reach more than 600 million light-years. The quintessence group Clowes and his colleagues included 73 quasars. They are about 4 billion light-years long. To visualize their magnitude, we only need to know that the length of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years. The structure that the Clowes group discovered was so great that it could not exist in the modern theory of the universe.

"The modern theory of the universe suggests that structures of 1.2 billion light years or more cannot exist. We will investigate similar cases to reinforce the results that we have find out, "the team said.