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At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in The Universe
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Quipu is Mayan for Yo Mama.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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I hate the way they talk about this thing. They keep calling it a super structure like it's one contiguous mass. It's not one mass, it's a gargantuan cluster of galaxies. In fact it's more like a cluster of galaxy clusters. So like if a galaxy is a system and galaxies can move together in gravity locked groups, this is a bunch of those galaxy clusters that are gravity locked to each other as well.
Quipus are fascinating if anyone needs a different rabbit hole to go down. Imagine an analog hard drive using knots in string
"That's more than 1.3 billion light-years." Oooo-kay