Five billion light years across: The largest feature in the universe
- August 4, 2015
- Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
- Astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts -- and hence galaxies - 5 billion light years across.
Credit: L. Balazs
A Hungarian-US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts -- and hence galaxies -- 5 billion light years across. The scientists, led by Prof Lajos Balazs of Kokoly Observatory in Budapest, report their work in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society./.../
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