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Astronomers discover humongous structure one-ninth the size of the observable universe

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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:33 AM
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I can't even wrap my mind around something being this large - 5 billion light years across! It isn't a single structure so the title (from article) is a bit misleading. But if calculations are correct, standard model cannot be viable.

I'd love to hear what folks here think.





In fact, this mysterious structure is so colossal that it could shatter our current understanding of the cosmos.

“If we are right, this structure contradicts the current models of the universe,” said Lajos Balazs, lead author on the paper, in a press release by the Royal Astronomical Society. “It was a huge surprise to find something this big – and we still don’t quite understand how it came to exist at all.”

Just what is this massive structure? It's not a single, physical object, but rather a cluster of nine massive galaxies bound together gravitationally, much like how our Milky Way is part of a cluster of galaxies. It was discovered after researchers identified a ring of nine gamma ray bursts (GRBs) that appeared to be at very similar distances from us, each around 7 billion light years away



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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:38 AM
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Some sort of early look at galaxy's soon after the big bang g?


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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:39 AM
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a reply to: VegHead

I'm saying its God.


Or an average American lost in space.


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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:40 AM
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originally posted by: EA006
a reply to: VegHead

I'm saying its God.


Or an average American lost in space.


It's Chris Christie and Michael Moore fighting over a donught

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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:43 AM
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2 replies in before american haters show up.. Way to be on it..



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:43 AM
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dbl post
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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:45 AM
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Know nothing about astronomy, but I am struck by 9 galaxies bound together to totaling one ninth of the known universe. Maybe even more structure and design with a numerical purpose.


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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:45 AM
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originally posted by: alienjuggalo
2 replies in before american haters show up.. Way to be on it..


Grow a sense of humour.....


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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:45 AM
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We don't hate anybody.....its a joke.



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:46 AM
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originally posted by: liveandlearn
Know nothing about astronomy, but I am struck by 9 galaxies bound together to totaling one ninth of the known universe. Maybe even more structure and design with a numerical purpose.


They have to be pretty big dam galaxies as well with trillions of stars each.



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:46 AM
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I thought I had seen that story before

www.space.com...



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:46 AM
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originally posted by: crazyewok
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Some sort of early look at galaxy's soon after the big bang g?
7 Billion Light years seems to be half the age of the universe since the big bang...... It's not from an early stage. Not that Im an expert.



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:48 AM
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Could it be as; an atom seeing a sinew/tendon for the first time ?

As above - down below, fractals and possibly fibonacci ...


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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:48 AM
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When the James Webb telescope comes online we should get a better look.



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:51 AM
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This statement is also from the article:



GRBs are the brightest electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe, caused by a supernova. Their detection typically indicates the presence of a galaxy, so all of the GRBs in this ring are believed to each come from a different galaxy. But their close proximity to one another suggests that these galaxies must be linked together. There is only a 1 in 20,000 probability of the GRBs being in this distribution by chance.


I won't pretend to understand the physics behind this. But I've always struggled with the fine-tuning argument, which this statement (perhaps inadvertently) points to. I'm Christian but have never really been able to embrace fine tuning as an apologetic argument for theism. Probabilities in retrospect don't seem very meaningful. Probabilities are useful in predicting odds of future events, correct? I mean...What are the odds I'd be typing these words right now? Depending on the number of variables you want to include, the odds are extraordinarily small but that doesn't mean anything.

Can someone explain what the significance of this probability is in the context of this discovery?

eta: oh wait (must drink more coffee) is it just saying there is only a 1 in 20,000 chance this is random as opposed to representing different galaxies?

I'm not smart enough for this conversation. I should show myself the door.
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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:51 AM
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With something of that size, I wonder what other stars/systems we have been missing - what might be hiding behind this enormous thing?

Very cool discovery!


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posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:52 AM
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First off -



Secondly a question -

Is the Universe 13 billion years old or is that only the area in the visible universe that we can see?



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:52 AM
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a reply to: Timely

I was thinking something like that, what size are super clusters?



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:53 AM
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a reply to: Xcathdra

Pretend to go.....



posted on Aug, 6 2015 @ 11:54 AM
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If it is an ever expanding universe ... we can only observe the available light relative to speed of expansion and our timescale ...

So umm ... yes.


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