{"id":36574,"date":"2026-09-09T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/?p=36574"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:31:30","slug":"a-giant-ring-appeared-in-the-distant-universe-and-the-arc-beside-it-may-be-pointing-to-something-cosmology-has-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/a-giant-ring-appeared-in-the-distant-universe-and-the-arc-beside-it-may-be-pointing-to-something-cosmology-has-missed\/36574\/","title":{"rendered":"A giant ring appeared in the distant Universe, and the arc beside it may be pointing to something cosmology has missed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has come again a time where we will talk about a completely new phenomenon that has been discovered by scientists in the distant Universe<\/a>. Nicknamed as the Big Ring<\/a>, a newly observed formation of galaxies has the size of 1.3 billion light years and sits 6.9 billion years away from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unusually large cosmic objects<\/a> are often found through observations, but this time there\u2019s something special about it. This galaxy cluster stands way too close to another vast cluster called the Giant Arc, so close indeed that it may prompt new discoveries regarding space-time physics or what\u2019s called cosmic \u201ccoincidence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ring far larger than expected<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cBig Ring\u201d was discovered by a team led by the PhD Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire and presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society<\/a> in 2024 and later reported in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we lay a first glance the structure looks like an almost perfect circle that is stretched across a huge section. A closer analysis indicates that our point-of-view could be fooling us, because the structure is probably shaped like a corkscrew instead of a ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is so important because we are used to seeing galaxies collected in clusters, walls, and filaments, but the Big Ring has no match when we try to analyse it through standard cosmology<\/a> previous records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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