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Our Galaxy Appears To Be Part Of Structure So Large It Challenges Our Models Of Cosmology (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] partiallycyber@ttrpg.network 56 points 1 month ago

Why this is important:

Given what we see in the cosmic microwave background, the first light we can detect after the inflation of the universe, structures can only grow so large within our current models. Yet this, and other similar discoveries, appear to be larger than our current models predict.