{"id":180452,"date":"2024-01-14T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-giant-ring-shaped-cosmic-megastructure-that-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-01-14T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T12:30:10","slug":"scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-giant-ring-shaped-cosmic-megastructure-that-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-giant-ring-shaped-cosmic-megastructure-that-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Scientists accidentally discovered a giant ring-shaped cosmic megastructure that challenges our understanding of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-accidentally-discovered-a-giant-ring-shaped-cosmic-megastructure-that-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a massive ring-shaped structure in space that challenges our understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The cosmic megastructure, dubbed the Big Ring, has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years and is among the largest structures ever observed. It appears to be roughly the size of 15 moons in the night sky as seen from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Ring is so large that it challenges the cosmological principle. This fundamental cosmological assumption says that the universe is homogeneous on a large scale and looks the same in all directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a massive ring-shaped structure in space that challenges our understanding of the universe. The cosmic megastructure, dubbed the Big Ring, has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years and is among the largest structures ever observed. It appears to be roughly the size of 15 moons in the night sky as seen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}