{"id":189451,"date":"2024-05-15T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/giant-structure-in-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:27:35","slug":"giant-structure-in-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/giant-structure-in-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Giant structure in space challenges our understanding of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-structure-in-space-challenges-our-understanding-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure which has confounded astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery might upend current cosmological theories.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019ve found is a 1.3-billion-light-year-across, almost perfect ring of galaxies. No such structure has been seen before. And it doesn\u2019t match any known formation mechanism. It has been dubbed the \u201cBig Ring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 9.2 billion light-years from Earth is a colossal structure which has confounded astronomers. The discovery might upend current cosmological theories. What they\u2019ve found is a 1.3-billion-light-year-across, almost perfect ring of galaxies. No such structure has been seen before. And it doesn\u2019t match any known formation mechanism. It has been dubbed the \u201cBig Ring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189451","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}