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Huge Quasar Cluster is Largest Cosmic Structure

• alex_c 14y ago
  The article is pretty light on details. What exactly defines this as a single "structure"? How do we determine where one cluster ends and another begins?
  • jonmc12 14y ago
    http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/07/mnras.sts497.full http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/01/07/mnr...
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• electromagnetic 14y ago
  When we see things like this it gets the sci-fi nerd going in me and makes me wonder if we could possibly be seeing the formation of a Tipler Cylinder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipler_cylinder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipler_cylinder) or similar structure. Or if it's a time-bubble so that a civilization can survive to discover other sentient life.
• JoeAltmaier 14y ago
  If its so large, why is it a cluster? I didn't know the universe was that large...sounds like these objects are actually scattered fairly thinly. Also, gotta love astronomers and their affinity to naming things: "For simplicity we shall also refer to U1.27 as the Huge-LQG and U1.28 as the CCLQG"