{"id":189236,"date":"2024-05-12T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/giant-structure-lurking-in-deep-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:23:34","slug":"giant-structure-lurking-in-deep-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/giant-structure-lurking-in-deep-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Giant Structure Lurking in Deep Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fwRJGaIcX6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.<\/p>\n<p>In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter. It doesn\u2019t match any known structure or formation mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Ring, as the structure has been named, could mean that we need to amend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">standard model<\/a> of cosmology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter. It doesn\u2019t match any known structure or formation mechanism. The Big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189236","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}