All about Quipu: A colossal cosmic structure Not just the mass of the superstructure was awe-inspiring, the object is more than 400 megaparsecs long, which translates to more than 1.3 billion ...

Quipu, as it is called, was discovered by an international team led by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE). Their study describing the superstructure has been ...

Previously regarded as the largest superstructure in space, it has now been eclipsed by at least four others, including Quipu. | Credit: ESA & Planck Collaboration / Rosat/ Digitised Sky Survey ...

According to the scientists on the team, the discovery was made by ROAST, a German-operated satellite telescope, and the superstructure has been named "Quipu." Quipu is estimated to span an ...

They found that the structure — dubbed "Quipu" after strings with knots used by the Incas for bookkeeping — stretched across huge swathes of the night sky. The team believes it's largely ...

J Richard Got III at Princeton University, which helped discover it, said: “The Quipu superstructure, end to end, is slightly longer than the Sloan Great Wall. Congratulations to them for ...