Friday, January 11, 2013

"Largest Structure in the Universe Discovered"

No, it's not "Oxycontin Rush" Limbaugh or Chris "Kris Krispycreme" Christie. It's this Large Quasar Group (LQG), stretching 4 billion light years from end to end (by comparison, our Milky Way galaxy is a mere 100,000 light years across). The LQG is a collection of luminous galactic nuclei, with 73 quasars. This ironically small picture of the LQG is via ESO/Kommesser: