“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...

Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most cherished assumptions about how the universe is built. The “Big Ring,” a ...

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(via Dr. Becky) The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged observers, we’re seeing the same Universe as everyone else; and ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A ring-shaped arrangement of galaxies stretching roughly 1.3 billion light-years in diameter has been identified in the distant universe, and its size and geometry do not fit neatly into current ...

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